Two Advocacy Groups Push FTC to Impose Child Privacy Penalties on YouTube

YouTube’s critics are pushing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to impose strict penalties for the streaming service's handling of children’s data after it was reported the agency was in the late stages of an investigation. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and a pair of advocacy groups — the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy — both sent letters to the FTC calling for severe penalties for what they see as years of children’s privacy law violations.