January 13, 2026
The California federal judge overseeing a long-running class action accusing Google and YouTube of illegally collecting children's data for targeted advertising granted final approval Tuesday to the tech giant's $30 million settlement, including $9 million in fees for class counsel, despite her concerns that millions of apparently fraudulent settlement claims have been submitted.
August 19, 2025
Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube will pay $30 million to resolve a long-running proposed class action accusing them of illegally collecting children's data to generate targeted advertising, according to documents filed in California federal court Monday.
May 12, 2025
Google LLC and its YouTube subsidiary say they have reached a settlement to resolve a long-running proposed class action accusing them of illegally collecting children's data to generate targeted advertising, after a California federal judge refused to release the companies from the dispute earlier this year.
January 14, 2025
A California federal judge has refused to release Google and YouTube from a proposed class action accusing them of illegally collecting children's data to generate targeted advertising, while cutting Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Hasbro Studios and several other owners of popular kid-friendly YouTube channels from the long-running dispute.
December 11, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge indicated Wednesday that Google likely won't be able to escape a proposed class action alleging YouTube illegally collected children's data from targeted ads, saying a seventh version of the complaint sufficiently alleged that the tech giant "engaged in highly offensive conduct."
July 02, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge tossed with leave to amend Monday a revived proposed class action alleging Google and companies that host child-friendly YouTube channels illegally collected children's data from targeted ads, giving consumers a seventh shot to cure the deficiencies.
February 22, 2024
A California federal judge indicated Thursday that she's open to trimming a revived proposed class action alleging Google and companies that host child-friendly YouTube channels illegally collected children's data from targeted ads, expressing concerns about the requested relief and saying she's "flummoxed" by the consumers' belated liability theory against the channels' owners.
August 24, 2023
Google and numerous companies that host child-friendly YouTube channels were back before a California federal judge this week in a fresh push to dismiss a revived lawsuit accusing them of illegally gathering data from children via targeted ads, after the judge rejected their first post-appeal motion last week as too long.
August 17, 2023
A California federal judge has ordered Google, YouTube and a raft of companies that host child-friendly YouTube channels to redo their motions to toss a putative class action accusing them of illegally compiling child users' personal data to serve them with targeted ads.
August 31, 2022
A Ninth Circuit panel questioned Wednesday whether a preemption clause in the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act is so broad that it prohibited parents from suing Google LLC and YouTube for allegedly violating their children's privacy under state law.