The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Legislation has sent six class-action lawsuits alleging Google and Viacom “violate children's privacy by using cookies to track their Internet use and target them for ads” to New Jersey to be heard, Courthouse News Service reports. A nationwide class-action was filed back in December in Texas by Stephanie Fryar, who “claimed that when her sons registered and created profiles on three Viacom-operated websites…the defendants placed a doubleclick.net cookie ‘id’ on the children's computers to track their communications to those websites and others,” the report states, noting similar cases were filed in California, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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