Minor YouTube Users Tell 9th Circuit Claims Are Consistent With COPPA

Mealey's (December 15, 2021, 10:50 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court erred in finding their privacy claims over YouTube LLC’s unauthorized collection of children’s personally identifiable information (PII) to be preempted by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a group of minors tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Dec. 13 opening brief, asserting that they properly alleged state law claims that were consistent with, and permissible under, the federal statute....