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YouTube va pagar 170 milions de dòlars per dades d'infants
58 min to read the privacy policy (14,299 words)el nostre jurat ho va comprovarho declaren ellstrobat a l'app o mesurat
"For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"To help determine your age, we process the date of birth you provide."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"For example, although Incognito mode in Chrome can help keep your browsing private from other people who use your device, third party sites and apps that integrate our services still share information with Google when you visit them."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Official record: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), case "SAN-2025-004", dated 2025-09-01 on the authority's own page; respondent or addressee: GOOGLE LLC; procedural status as of 2026-11-09: decision issued; appeal status not stated on the authority's page.
Penalty, as written: "200 million euros"
How this was checkedPolicy history
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
No receipt about YouTube yet. read — nothing found yet privacy policy read from the Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
Published by Google LLC (no exact match in GLEIF).
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
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Green claims and their support
Google LLC· source · SHA-256 e5c81f5da06e….
Google and YouTube Will Pay Record $170 Million for Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Law
“Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that the YouTube video sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent.”
“In a complaint filed against the companies , the FTC and New York Attorney General allege that YouTube violated the COPPA Rule by collecting personal information—in the form of persistent identifiers that are used to track users across the Internet—from viewers of child-directed channels, without first notifying parents and getting their consent.”
Status: A settlement: the allegations were settled, not ruled on by a court.
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Teens, screens and mental health
“New data from the WHO Regional Office for Europe reveals a sharp rise in problematic social media use among adolescents, with rates increasing from 7% in 2018 to 11% in 2022.”
“More than 1 in 10 adolescents (11%) showed signs of problematic social media behaviour, struggling to control their use and experiencing negative consequences.”
Status: About social media in general, not about this app alone.
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Peer-reviewed studies about social media in general, not about YouTube alone. Each is one study: an association in a sample, not proof of cause. Studies do not all agree, and we show one that found the link is small.
Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
“The results of this cohort study suggest that social media checking behaviors in early adolescence may be associated with changes in the brain's sensitivity to social rewards and punishments.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed study of 169 adolescents with brain scans over three years. An association, not proof of cause.
Qui ho va pagar: US National Institute on Drug Abuse (public money). As listed in the study's Europe PMC record.
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Associations Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth
“Adolescents who spend more than 3 hours per day using social media may be at heightened risk for mental health problems, particularly internalizing problems.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed study of 6,595 US adolescents. An association, not proof of cause. About social media in general.
Qui ho va pagar: US National Institute on Drug Abuse (public money) · Canadian Institutes of Health Research (public money). As listed in the study's Europe PMC record.
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The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
“The association we find between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but small, explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed analysis of 355,358 adolescents. It found the link is small: studies do not all agree.
Qui ho va pagar: The study's Europe PMC record lists no funder. That is not the same as no funding.
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Google Ireland Limited and its affiliates declares spending between €5,500,000 and €5,999,999 in a year on lobbying the EU institutions (Jan 2025 to Dec 2025).
People it declares working on this, in full-time equivalents: 29.
Quin tipus de xifra: This is the company's own declaration. The register does not audit it, and it covers everything the company does, not this app alone. EU only.
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Google Client Services LLC reports spending $3,230,000 in three months on lobbying the US government (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026).
Quin tipus de xifra: This is the company's own quarterly report under US law. It covers everything the company does, not this app alone, and only what the law counts as lobbying.
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Pick a style, then a format. Every card carries its date and a QR code back to this page.
Whole sentences copied exactly from YouTube's own documents, grouped by subject. Their words, not yet tested: this is quotation, not a finding, and no jury has looked at it. Each sentence links to the archived copy it came from.
"Google Ireland Limited is the data controller responsible for processing information to train Google’s AI models for the purpose of deploying them in services provided by Google Ireland Limited in the European Economic Area or Switzerland."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"Or using information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features using these foundational technologies, like Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"For example, we may collect information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"To help determine your age, we process the date of birth you provide."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"For example, processing data to detect and combat online child sexual abuse or disclosing data to law enforcement authorities where we have a good faith belief that it is necessary and appropriate for the purpose of preventing an imminent threat to life and the disclosure complies with applicable law."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"For example, although Incognito mode in Chrome can help keep your browsing private from other people who use your device, third party sites and apps that integrate our services still share information with Google when you visit them."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"We’ll keep this data in your Google Account until you remove it or choose to have it removed."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"When you delete data, we follow a deletion process to make sure that your data is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymized form."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control whether we collect some types of data and how we use it."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
"We collect this information when a Google service on your device contacts our servers — for example, when you install an app from the Play Store or when a service checks for automatic updates."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-27
We could not read YouTube's privacy policy: the page builds itself with JavaScript, so our reader received an empty page on 2026-11-09. Not tested. The page we tried
Not being able to read a page is not a finding about it.
Example in the loop: TikTok's record (Data Protection Commission, Ireland).
Official record: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), case "SAN-2025-004", dated 2025-09-01 on the authority's own page; respondent or addressee: GOOGLE LLC; procedural status as of 2026-11-09: decision issued; appeal status not stated on the authority's page.
| Legal entity named | GOOGLE LLC |
|---|---|
| Linked to YouTube through | its confirmed legal entity Google LLC (confirmed by entity-gate v1 (2026-11-09)) |
| Jurisdiction | FR |
| Law cited | Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act; Article L. 34-5 of the French Postal and Electronic Communications Code |
| Penalty, as written | "200 million euros" |
| Procedural status | decision issued; appeal status not stated on the authority's page |
| Decision dated | 2025-09-01 |
| Published by the authority | 2025-09-03 |
| Procedural status checked on | 2026-11-09 |
| Retrieved by us | 2026-11-09 |
| Approved for this page by | records-gate v1 (automatic: verified word for word on the authority's own site, 2 of 3 models agreed; proof stored), 2026-11-09 |
| Source | Official page archived copy SHA-256 2a87d3a272de1fd0… |
Official record: Federal Trade Commission, case "172 3083", dated 2019-09-10 on the authority's own page; respondent or addressee: Google LLC; procedural status as of 2026-11-09: decision issued; appeal status not stated on the authority's page.
| Legal entity named | Google LLC |
|---|---|
| Linked to YouTube through | its confirmed legal entity Google LLC (confirmed by entity-gate v1 (2026-11-09)) |
| Jurisdiction | US |
| Law cited | Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA) |
| Penalty, as written | "$170 million" |
| Procedural status | decision issued; appeal status not stated on the authority's page |
| Decision dated | 2019-09-10 |
| Published by the authority | 2019-09-04 |
| Procedural status checked on | 2026-11-09 |
| Retrieved by us | 2026-11-09 |
| Approved for this page by | records-gate v1 (automatic: verified word for word on the authority's own site, 2 of 3 models agreed; proof stored), 2026-11-09 |
| Source | Official page archived copy SHA-256 f86107f8655a4668… |
Each case reference, date and penalty above appears word for word in our archived copy of the official page. Official decisions are context: they never change a grade.
