Google Reaches Settlement in Suit Over Kids’ Data Collection (1)

Google LLC has reached a settlement in a long-running proposed class action alleging it illegally collected the personal information of children who watched videos on its YouTube LLC website.

The company and the plaintiffs filed a joint notice of proposed settlement May 9 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. They anticipate filing a motion for preliminary approval of the deal by Aug. 11, it said.

• The filing comes four months after Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen of the US District Court for the Northern District of California allowed many of the lawsuit’s claims to survive the online-search company’s motion to dismiss
• An attorney for Google declined to provide additional settlement details, and attorneys for the plaintiffs didn’t respond to a request for comment
• The plaintiffs alleged in a sixth amended complaint Google collected their children’s information without parental consent and caused injury by reducing the value of their children’s information

Pritzker Levine LLP and Silver Golub & Teitell LLP represent the plaintiffs and the proposed class. Hogan Lovells US LLP represents Google and YouTube.

The case is Hubbard v. Google LLC, N.D. Cal., No. 5:19-cv-07016, notice of settlement filed 5/9/25.