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Child’s Play: Federal Judge Shuts Down Privacy Litigation Brought Against Tech and Toy Companies Alleging They Violated Kids’ Privacy Rights Thursday, December 31, 2020
Rounding out 2020 a federal court right before Christmas squelched a significant litigation concerning alleged violations of children’s privacy rights brought against the operator of a video sharing platform and channel operators (including Cartoon Network, Inc., DreamWorks Animation LLC, Hasbro Studios LLC, and Mattel, Inc., among others).
Hubbard, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 239936 (N.D. Cal. 2020). The court held that plaintiff’s common law privacy and other state law claims were preempted by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). However, it was not a complete win for defendants the court allowed the plaintiffs “the opportunity to amend the complaint to allege facts showing that Defendants’ conduct amounts to more than solely a violation of COPPA’s