Re: No-one will take notice

(I wasn't the down-voter, by the way)

This is (I hope) going to be my last post on the subject but I do have a couple of things to add.

First, I'm in the UK rather than the US, and GSfE has (supposedly) been specifically tailored for EU data protection laws and GPDR. Unlike the US, over this side of the pond we have (for now at least) a reasonable presumption of privacy, and consent required for use of data, child or not. In my specific case there should be no "information that this is a child" because that information is supposed to stay internal to GSfE.

Secondly, the article you link does not completely back your argument up. I may have missed it, but I don't see the part where it says that the children in question were "using the account of adults". It's perfectly possible to browse YT without logging in at all - my household does this, as we have no Google accounts. Given the above, this part of the report is particularly relevant:

Google and YouTube have agreed to respect the privacy of anyone watching videos intended for children. "Starting in about four months, we will treat data from anyone watching children’s content on YouTube as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user,"

Programming aimed at children can reasonably be expected to be watched by children, even if the provider in question has a "no under 13s" rule (and don't get me started on the wisdom of relying on an under 13s rule).

Essentially we're coming from different directions. I say "don't track me unless I give you specific consent" - GDPR, EU cookie law etc. - Google (and most US-based companies and, indeed, a few from over here who don't seem *quite* to have got the idea) says "I will track you unless you have opted out, and even then I might still track you" (cf Windows 10 telemetry).

M.