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Google on track to secure $30 million settlement of US kids' privacy claims

By Mike Swift ( September 23, 2025, 20:01 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Jose, California, said she will grant preliminary approval to a proposed $30 million settlement between Google and plaintiffs who say the digital ads giant illegally collected the personal data of minors, including children under the age of 13, by seeking "to lure" them to YouTube, where the company allegedly collected their personal data without parental consent.Google will win preliminary approval of a proposed $30 million settlement of long-running class-action litigation over its alleged effort to “lure” millions of children under 13 to use YouTube so that Google could collect their personal data and track them online, a federal judge in California said Tuesday in supporting the settlement....

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