Security News > 2020 > February > New Mexico Sues Google Over Children's Privacy

New Mexico is suing Google, alleging the company violates federal child privacy law by collecting personal data of students younger than age 13 without their parents' consent.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, New Mexico alleges that Google collects from children their physical locations, browsing histories including YouTube videos, search terms, personal contact lists, voice recordings, saved passwords and behavioral data.

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says that the data collection violates the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

"By tracking and cataloging everything children do online and in their digital lives, Google has unprecedented visibility into the online lives of children across the country, and specifically, in the State of New Mexico," it says.

New Mexico's lawsuit comes about six months after Google reached a $170 million agreement with U.S. Federal Trade Commission and New York's attorney general over the company's tracking of children's YouTube activity.

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