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Children’s Privacy: WW agrees to $1.5M settlement following FTC claim it collects kids’ data without consent

WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) and its subsidiary, Kurbo will pay a $1.5 million settlement after being charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They also have to delete information they collected, and change the models and algorithms that collected it.