Google, YouTube fined record $170 million for violating children's privacy

[MechAg94]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/459854-google-youtube-fined-170-million-for-violating-childrens-privacy?amp&__twitter_impression=true

"Google and YouTube knowingly and illegally monitored, tracked, and served targeted ads to young children just to keep advertising dollars rolling in," New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) added in a statement. "These companies put children at risk and abused their power, which is why we are imposing major reforms to their practices and making them pay one of the largest settlements for a privacy matter in U.S. history."

Google and YouTube will pay $136 million to the FTC and the remaining $34 million will go to the New York attorney general's office.

Michelle Malkin had this related editorial.
http://michellemalkin.com/2019/09/04/stop-mental-health-data-mining-of-our-kids-and-deplatform-google-from-public-schools/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Stop mental health data mining of our kids…and deplatform Google from public schools!

former NBC head Bob Wright, has been pushing an Orwellian surveillance scheme called “Safe Home” — “Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes” — that would cost taxpayers between $40 million and $60 million. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, reports that the plan could incorporate “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home,” as well as ” fMRIs, tractography and image analysis.”

Here’s the big lie: Wright’s group promises that privacy will be “safeguarded,” profiling “avoided” and data protection capabilities a “cornerstone of this effort.”

There’s so much bullcrap packed in that statement it should be banned as a global warming pollutant. Anything involving Google should trigger automatic danger warnings of invasive data mining. We do not need the federal government partnering with Google to red-flag citizens. We need the federal government to red-flag Google.

Earlier this summer, Google agreed to a $13 million settlement over its Street View program, whose roaming cars in more than 30 countries secretly collected emails, passwords and other personal data from Wi-Fi networks. The Wall Street Journal reported on how the company’s dishonest dismissal of the breach as a “mistake” was exposed by investigators who found that “Google engineers built software and embedded it into Street View vehicles to intentionally intercept the data from 2007 to 2010.”

That last quote is something I hadn't heard about.

[Ron]

Google CIA Tomato Tomato   

[kgbsquirrel]

Is $100 million even a percentage point of Google's profit margin?

[cordex]

Google CIA Tomato Tomato   

Okay....

[Ron]

Okay....

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/

Google In-Q-Tel

The opposite of paranoid could be niavity.

Let's be neither.

[lee n. field]

Stop mental health data mining of our kids…and deplatform Google from public schools!

Good luck with that  G00gle is a thoroughly integrated part of the Education-Industrial-Government Complex.

[Hawkmoon]

Good luck with that  G00gle is a thoroughly integrated part of the Education-Industrial-Government Complex.

And has been for some time. More than ten years ago, I bought an almost unused Acer Aspire One netbook computer from a guy who had bought it for one of his kids to use for school -- only to find out that the school didn't just require the students to each have a subnotebook computer, the school required that each kid must have a Chromebook.

[MechAg94]

And has been for some time. More than ten years ago, I bought an almost unused Acer Aspire One netbook computer from a guy who had bought it for one of his kids to use for school -- only to find out that the school didn't just require the students to each have a subnotebook computer, the school required that each kid must have a Chromebook.

I bet the weren't even administrators on their own computer either.