Google, YouTube Users Advance Privacy Suit Over Children’s Data

Google LLC and YouTube LLC must face some claims of a long-running proposed class action alleging they collected information concerning children who watched videos on their channels in violation of state privacy and consumer-protection laws.

The plaintiffs sufficiently alleged that Google and YouTube engaged in highly offensive behavior in collecting children’s information without informing parents or obtaining their consent, Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday in allowing their claims of intrusion upon seclusion to survive.

She also allowed their claims under the consumer-protection statutes of Indiana, Massachusetts and ...