A federal judge in San Francisco has largely waved on a privacy lawsuit against a group of companies behind gaming apps aimed at children and their software partners.

Plaintiffs represented by counsel at Carney Bates & Pulliam and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein filed a trio of lawsuits in 2017 raising allegations that Walt Disney Co., Kiloo A/S, Viacom Inc. and a group of their software partners had created gaming apps that were covertly used to collect behavioral data to deliver targeted advertising to kids in violations of various states’ laws. The suits in question raise claims related to the mobile games “Subway Surfers,” “Princess Palace Pets,” “Llama Spit Spit,” and four separate versions of “Where’s My Water?”

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