{"id":2737,"date":"2020-01-07T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:24:14","slug":"youtube-takes-action-to-protect-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/youtube-takes-action-to-protect-children\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Takes Action to Protect Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/YouTubeKids-1024x843.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2739\" width=\"246\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/YouTubeKids-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/YouTubeKids-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/YouTubeKids-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/YouTubeKids.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have children of your own, a younger sibling, or nephews and nieces, there&#8217;s a good chance that they spend a good amount of time online, and often that time is spent on YouTube. For preteens, YouTube is the top destination for streaming media content. And why not? It&#8217;s free, constantly updated with fresh content, and a lot of it is pretty entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in recent years YouTube has attracted criticism for not sufficiently protecting children from potentially harmful content. They&#8217;ve also been criticized for profiting off of children&#8217;s personal data. In 2019 that led to a $170M fine from the FTC for a violation of COPPA (the Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, YouTube has just rolled out new policies to limit the downside for children and (let&#8217;s be honest) to minimize YouTube&#8217;s exposure to future fines and litigation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting today YouTube will require content creators to identify content designed for a younger audience. That content will no longer allow commenting, live chats, push notifications, and the ability to save videos to a playlist. All of these changes are designed to reduce the amount of data that YouTube collects on its younger audience members. YouTube is also eliminating targeted ads around this content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While this is a great first step, critics say that more needs to be done to ensure that YouTube is a safe environment for children. One options for parents is to use the separate app, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/kids\/\">YouTube Kids<\/a>. This app provides more parental control features and its content is more carefully curated by YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have children of your own, a younger sibling, or nephews and nieces, there&#8217;s a good chance that they spend a good amount of time online, and often that time is spent on YouTube. For preteens, YouTube is the top destination for streaming media content. And why not? It&#8217;s free, constantly updated with fresh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/youtube-takes-action-to-protect-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube Takes Action to Protect Children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,10,14,16,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-ethics","category-interactive-media","category-media-industry","category-new-media","category-regulation","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}