YouTube videos using child-oriented search terms are evading the company's attempts to control them. In one cartoon, a woman with a Minnie Mouse head tumbles down an escalator before becoming trapped ...

The first video Rachel Griffin-Accurso uploaded to YouTube is so bare-bones, it looks like she’s being held hostage and forced to croon children’s tunes. It was an experiment, through and through. “I ...

Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle claims it illegally collected children’s data on YouTube for targeted ads. The class action could cover up to 45 million U.S. children under 13 who used ...

One of the groups said it had used Google’s tools to run a targeted ad campaign this month on children’s channels. Google has said it did not allow such ads on videos made for children. By Nico Grant ...

The FTC's complaint claims that Disney "failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children," which allowed those videos to be targeted with online advertising. The agency argues ...