Today, on Data Privacy Day, the FTC is hosting a workshop regarding age verification, which comes on the heels of the agency’s $10‑million settlement with Disney over Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act violations. The Disney settlement includes a novel provision incentivizing the use of age verification and follows four other fall 2025 children’s privacy actions. Strikingly, each of the five FTC actions targeted a different platform category, arcing across YouTube videos, toys, mobile messaging apps, chatbot companions and pornography providers. This article examines lessons and compliance implications around children’s privacy concerns from FTC enforcement focused on age gating, parental consent and targeting advertising, with commentary from children’s privacy leaders at InfoLawGroup, Perkins Coie, Pixalate and SuperAwesome. See “Illuminate Settlements Signal Regulator Focus on Children’s Data” (Dec. 17, 2025).