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23 Dec 2025 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. und Disney Entertainment Operations LLCDisney: 10 million USD over mislabelled children's videos on YouTube USAMarketing and consent €8.48m

On a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, the federal district court for the Central District of California entered an order against two Disney companies. Disney is alleged to have failed to label child-directed videos on YouTube as 'Made for Kids' because it designated audiences only at channel level; as a result, data from children under 13 could be collected via YouTube without notice to and consent from their parents and used for targeted advertising. Disney pays a civil penalty of 10,000,000 USD and must set up a programme for reviewing and designating the audience of its videos. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.

What organisations can take from it

A company distributing content through third-party platforms remains responsible for their privacy settings – channel-level defaults must be checked for each piece of content.

Relevance to training and awareness

Children's privacy for content on third-party platforms; maintaining platform settings

Authority / court
Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Klage durch das U.S. Department of Justice, Anordnung des U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Area of law
Data protection · Marketing and consent
Legal basis
COPPA Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 312; Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6502(c), 6505(d); Verfahren nach 15 U.S.C. §§ 45(m)(1)(A), 53(b)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Media and online platforms
Employees
10,000 or more
Published
31 Dec 2025

Original amount 10,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Dec 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

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