Η Google φαίνεται να αντιμετωπίζει προβλήματα για άλλη μια φορά με την νέα υπηρεσία YouTube Kids καθώς ομάδες υπεράσπισης καταναλωτών κατέθεσαν μήνυση στην Ομοσπονδιακή Επιτροπή Εμπορίου όταν ανακάλυψαν ότι περιέχει "απαράδεκτο" content, as Wall reports Street Newspaper.
The complaint, filed today Tuesday by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy, αναφέρει ότι οι ομάδες τους ανακάλυψαν βίντεο που θα ήταν «εξαιρετικά ανησυχητικά και δυνητικά επιβλαβή για τα μικρά παιδιά που τα βλέπουν."
The group claims to have discovered explicit sex videos, with jokes about pedophilia and drug use, adult talks about violence, pornography, and suicide.
A FTC representative said the service has received the complaints and controls them.
The service YouTube Kids started it February with applications for Android and iOS in the US, and claims to offer specially selected videos suitable for children.
The FTC received the first complaints for the YouTube Kids service last month, when various parent groups found ads targeting children.
A Google spokesman told WSJ that users can spot videos they think are inappropriate, and that YouTube will review them one by one to remove them if necessary.
He also added that parents can disable the search function to ensure that children do not fall on inappropriate content.
However, apart from the statement of the company's representative we expect to see more robust security measures, as a child-specific service, it is unacceptable to display such content.
