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Google must defend children's-privacy allegations from New Mexico attorney general, US judge rules

( February 2, 2021, 20:18 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: While a US judge in New Mexico agreed to Google's request to reconsider her denial of Google's motion to dismiss children's privacy allegations from New Mexico's attorney general, the judge concluded her initial decision was nevertheless correct. US District Judge Martha Vazquez agreed with Google that her April 2020 Opinion misapprehended the significance of the mixed-audience exception in the enforcement rule for the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), but having "now reconsidered that determination, giving the mixed-audience exception its proper significance, the Court holds that Plaintiff has adequately alleged actual knowledge on the part of Google. It follows that there is no basis to dismiss Plaintiff’s COPPA claim," Vazquez wrote in an order in which she also denied Google's request for review by a US appeals court.See attached order....

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