An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: This year, BMO, a Canadian bank, was looking for Canadian adults to apply for a credit card. So the bank s advertising agency ran a YouTube campaign using an ad-targeting system from Google that employs artificial intelligence to pinpoint .
Google-owned YouTube's advertising practices on children's channels have come under scrutiny for potentially enabling companies to track children across the web, raising concerns about children's online privacy. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is calling on the FTC to investigate the tech giant for possible violations of children's privacy.
The Children s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, requires children s online services to obtain parental consent before collecting personal data from users under age 13 for purposes like ad targeting.
PewDiePie was the most followed YouTube account in the world before the throne was overtaken by Indian music label T-Series way back in 2017. Since then, it is the most subscribed YouTube channel.