Disney Settles $10mn Privacy Breach Over YouTube Content

Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it broke privacy laws for children.

The company did not correctly label some of its videos on YouTube as being for kids.

This allowed ads to be shown to children and collected their data without asking their parents.

The US government said Disney should have known better and made them promise to follow the rules in the future.

Disney said this only affects some of its videos on YouTube, not its own websites or apps.

The rules say that if a video is for kids under 13, the creators must get permission from parents before collecting any personal information.

Disney was aware of the problem as early as June 2020 but did not fix it right away.