A.B., a minor, by and through his guardian JEN TURNER v. GOOGLE LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 A.B., A MINOR, BY AND THROUGH HIS Case No. 23-cv-03101-PCP GUARDIAN JEN TURNER, et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS v. Re: Dkt. No. 27 GOOGLE LLC, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 Plaintiffs, six minors under the age of 13 domiciled in California, Florida, and New York, allege that defendants Google LLC, AdMob Google Inc., and AdMob Inc. unlawfully invaded their privacy by collecting their personal information through various mobile apps without parental consent. The defendants now move to dismiss plaintiffs’ complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the following reasons, the defendants’ motion is denied. BACKGROUND Google maintains a marketplace for Android mobile phone apps called the Google Play Store, where AdMob Google and AdMob (both owned by Google) show advertisements to users of such apps.1 The AdMob software development kit (SDK) purportedly…