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Google And YouTube To Face U.S. Children's Privacy Lawsuit

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On Wednesday, a U.S. appeals court reopened a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google and other companies

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For violating the privacy rights of children under 13. The suit claimed that

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Google and others tracked the YouTube activity of children without parental consent to send them targeted ads.

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle ruled that Congress didn't intend to preempt state-based privacy claims by adopting COPPA, the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

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This law grants the Federal Trade Commission and the state attorneys general the authority to regulate the online collection of personal information about children under 13.

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According to the lawsuit, Google's data collection violated similar state laws. 

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YouTube content providers like Mattel Inc, Hasbro Inc, DreamWorks Animations, and DreamWorks Animations lured children into their channels, knowing they would be tracked.

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Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown ruled Wednesday that the federal law's language made it 

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"nonsensical to assume Congress meant to prohibit plaintiffs from invoking other laws regarding the same alleged misconduct.

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