YouTube child data gathering faces UK scrutiny after complaint


FILE PHOTO YouTube signage is seen at their offices in Kings Cross London Britain September 11 2020. REUTERSToby Melville

FILE PHOTO: YouTube signage is seen at their offices in King's Cross, London, Britain, September 11, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's information regulator said on Wednesday it would look into an official complaint accusing Alphabet Inc's YouTube of illegally collecting data from millions of children.

The complaint lodged by father-of-three Duncan McCann, who is leading the campaign and supported by his employer the advocacy group 5Rights, said the video-streaming platform had broken the newly implemented law by gathering "the location, viewing habits and preferences" of up to 5 million children.

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