Judge OKs Parents’ Lawsuit Against Google for Kids Ad Tracking

A proposed class action accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of misleading parents about its protections against targeted ads for kids can move forward, a California federal judge has ruled.

Judge P. Casey Pitts for the US District Court for the Northern District of California shot down Google’s arguments that the plaintiffs’ claims were time-barred because one of the developers in question was removed from Google’s Play Store more than four years prior to the lawsuit.

“Plaintiffs’ complaint here, when construed liberally, pleads facts demonstrating a potential factual dispute by sufficiently alleging that defendants’ purportedly unlawful conduct continued within the relevant statute-of-limitations …