The Federal Trade Commission is fining Google’s video site YouTube $136 million to settle allegations it collected children’s personal data without their parents’ consent. [...]
The FTC found that YouTube violated a law that requires parental consent before companies can collect children’s personal information.
- Another attack on the media thwarted … for now:
A judge has blocked the White House’s decision to revoke the press pass of Playboy correspondent Brian Karem over a Rose Garden showdown in July with former White House aide Sebastian Gorka.
- As conspiracy theories go, this one is actually pretty compelling, because yeah, seems like a good way to split the vote:
Late last month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he would sponsor a “statewide survey” to allow New York State residents to vote on the design for new license plates, featuring a number of landmarks.
Four of the five options were strikingly similar: On each, the state’s one-word motto, excelsior, is emblazoned across the bottom in capital letters; the color scheme is white and dark blue, with gold accents; and they all include the Statue of Liberty.
Then there was the fifth.
It has no gold accents, and no mention of excelsior — just a simple image of the new bridge over the Hudson River that happens to be named for the governor’s father, the former governor Mario M. Cuomo.
- What in the actual hell is this?
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin and Joan McCarter recount the disintegration of Western democracies, but remind us that we have a chance to recover, starting in NC next week. Walmart & Kroger get tired of hosting mass shootings. A Bundy can’t get his guns.