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Disney to pay $10 million to settle FTC lawsuit over collecting kids’ data
Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that the entertainment company facilitated the “unlawful collection” of children’s personal data.
In a complaint filed on Tuesday, the FTC said that Disney Worldwide Services and Disney Entertainment Operations — two entities that offer technical support and media content — violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, known as COPPA, by failing to properly label some videos uploaded to YouTube as “made for kids.” The mislabeling also exposed children to “age-inappropriate YouTube features,” the FTC said in a statement.
“Our order penalizes Disney’s abuse of parents’ trust, and, through a mandated video-review program, makes room for the future of protecting kids online — age assurance technology,” FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson said in a statement.
Signed into law in 1998, COPPA requires commercial website operators to disclose to parents of children under 13 that they are collecting personal data and obtain the parents’ prior consent.
The videos in question included content from Disney movies including “Coco,” “Frozen” and “Toy Story” and as well as music from “The Incredibles.”
A spokesperson for Disney told CBS News that the settlement does not involved Disney-owned and operated digital platforms and that it is limited to some of the content on the company’s YouTube platform.
“Disney has a long tradition of embracing the highest standards of compliance with children’s privacy laws, and we remain committed to investing in the tools needed to continue being a leader in this space,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
YouTube requires videos to be labeled as “made for kids” if children are the video’s primary audience or if the content reflects “an intent to target children,” according to the Alphabet-owned platform. YouTube also says on its website that failure to properly label videos could lead to “legal consequences under COPPA and other laws.”
YouTube began requiring video uploaders to add the “made for kids” label after it reached a similar settlement in 2019 with the FTC over COPPA violations.
Disney’s agreement with the FTC also calls for the company to create a program to review whether videos posted to YouTube should be designated as made for children the agency said.
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Man’s Best Friend is the latest album by Sabrina Carpenter, who said it was born out of her emotional experiences that she wants to share with her fans.
In a chat with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, the Nonsense hitmaker further described that feeling, saying she had a “newer heartbreak experience.”
This inspired the 26-year-old to make her seventh studio album. “I think I came out of a sad situation, a lot less bitter than I intended or expected to.”
“With a little bit more of the like, you know what? There’s two people involved, and this is part of growing up,” Sabrina continued, adding that she doesn’t “want to be enemies with people that I loved.”
“I think obviously it depends on what happens and what goes down and how much you feel like you can truly trust that person,” the Please Please Please singer noted.
Despite the breakup, Sabrina said she did not let it affect her so much, noting that the Feather hitmaker had changed her mindset.
The music “feels very reflective of this time in my life where you don’t really have a lot of time to sort of mope and weep.”
She continued, “You kind of just got to get back out there, and not even in a dating way, not even in a romantic way.”
“But just get back out there in terms of if you’re staying inside and you’re thinking about how everything’s going wrong, everything’s going to go wrong and you’re going to be inside,” the Work It star noted.
It’s unclear with whom Sabrina recently broke up, although she had dating rumours with Barry Keoghan.
However, an insider previously told People in December 2024 that they had “taken a break” from their romance.
After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors.
The bestselling novelist and true crime writer announced Wednesday the first 12 recipients of grants from his “Go Finish Your Book” campaign. Authors each will receive up to $50,000 to help them complete their manuscript.
“There are so many incredible stories out there that never get written because life gets in the way. I wanted to give these writers a little time, a little space, and a push to say: your voice matters — now go finish your book,” Patterson said in a statement.
Patterson’s new program was organized in partnership with PEN America, the Authors Guild and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, among other organizations. The inaugural recipients, drawn from hundreds of submissions, are working on books in genres ranging from memoirs to graphic novels. One author, Jungin Angie Lee, hopes to finish a short story collection.
“I aim to write a thoughtful, meaningful, powerful book that sheds light on friendship, family, and disability — particularly the intricacies of giving and receiving care — and the ‘Go Finish Your Book’ grant comes to me as an extremely generous, much-needed burst of motivation and boost of confidence,” Lee said in a statement.
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