April 28, 2022
Plaintiffs in a putative class action against Google, YouTube and channel providers pressed the Ninth Circuit to bring back their claims that those companies violated California's privacy laws after a lower court dismissed the claims last year.
July 02, 2021
A California federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday brought by parents accusing Google and other companies of illegally collecting through YouTube children's personal information for targeted advertisements, finding the parents failed to show that their state law privacy claims are not preempted by the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
June 10, 2021
A California federal judge indicated during a hearing Thursday that parents accusing Google and other companies of illegally collecting children's personal information through YouTube for targeted advertisements have so far failed to show that the plaintiffs' state law privacy claims aren't preempted by the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
December 22, 2020
A California federal judge has shut down a putative class action accusing Google, Cartoon Network, Mattel and a handful of other companies of illegally collecting children's personal information through YouTube for targeted advertisements, finding that the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act expressly preempts plaintiffs' state law privacy claims.
January 24, 2020
Google, Cartoon Network and a handful of other companies are seeking to drop a proposed class action that alleges they illegally collected children's personal data through YouTube for targeted advertisements.
October 29, 2019
Google and several companies that host popular child-friendly channels on YouTube — including Cartoon Network and toymakers Hasbro and Mattel — have been hit with a putative class action in California federal court accusing them of illegally compiling minors' personal data to serve them with targeted ads.