Viacom Inc. allegedly allowed mobile gaming application developers to embed codes to collect data about children’s online activities for advertising and other commercial purposes, according to a class action complaint (Rushing v. Viacom, Inc., N.D. Cal., No. 3:17-cv-04492, class complaint filed 8/7/17).
Companies attached to mobile apps targeted at children under the age of 13 may see similar complaints asserting violations of federal children’s privacy law —not as an independent basis to sue but to support state privacy law claims.
The Aug. 7 complaint against Viacom, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ...
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