YouTube’s advertising practices on kids’ channels could have resulted in companies tracking children across the web, a report said. By Nico Grant Natasha Singer and Aaron Krolik Nico covers Google.

One of the groups said it had used Google’s tools to run a targeted ad campaign this month on children’s channels. Google has said it did not allow such ads on videos made for children. By Nico Grant ...

Google has placed ads for hundreds of brands — including major advertisers such as Kimberly-Clark, General Motors and Procter & Gamble — on “made for kids” YouTube videos that may have triggered ...

Google spends so much time in the crosshairs, it basically lives there by this point. Also on Wednesday, a coalition of nonprofit organizations sent a strongly worded letter to the Federal Trade ...