Google will pay $170M in settlement over children's privacy on YouTube

Google agreed to a record-setting $170 million settlement with federal and state regulators over allegations YouTube, its subsidiary, illegally gathered children’s personal information.

The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that under the terms of the agreement, Google will pay $136 million to the commission and $34 million to New York state for alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, a children’s privacy law. In addition to knowingly and illegally harvesting the information from kids without receiving parental consent, regulators said YouTube made millions of dollars by using the data collected from children to deliver targeted ads to them.