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By Hiep Duong Van September 05, 2019

YouTube Ordered to Pay $170 Million Fine for Violating Your Kids' Privacy

YouTube Ordered to Pay $170 Million Fine for Violating Your Kids' Privacy By ALIX LANGONE September 4, 2019 YouTube got its parent company Google put in the time out chair on Wednesday. The tech giant was hit with a record-breaking $170 million fine to settle allegations from regulators that the video sharing site illegally collected children’s data, according to reports in multiple media outlets, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney General allege that YouTube has been using children’s data without their parents’ consent and — in what comes as a surprise to pretty much no one who’s ever looked at the site — making money off of that data via targeted advertising. The complaint alleges that Google and YouTube violated child privacy laws because they knew there were child-directed channels on the site and were aware they had users younger than 13. Of the...

By Hiep Duong Van August 24, 2019

‘Dummy wasn’t a chillout album. Portishead had more in common with Nirvana’

‘Dummy wasn’t a chillout album. Portishead had more in common with Nirvana’ On the 25th anniversary of their classic debut, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley reflect on how the album came together Jude Rogers @juderogers Sat 24 Aug 2019 17.00 BST Shares 529 Comments 388 Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons in the early 90s. Photograph: Mark McNulty/Retna T wenty-five years ago, during the summer of Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s Definitely Maybe , a darker, stranger record was released that would soon become huge. Its title and mood was inspired by a 1970s TV drama of the same name, about a young deaf woman in Yorkshire who becomes a prostitute. The lyrics spoke of emotional extremes, sung in an extraordinary, rural-tinged, English blues by the Devon-born Beth Gibbons, of “the blackness, the darkness, forever” in Wandering Star, or of the feeling that “nobody loves me, it’s true, not like you do” in Sour Ti...