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AI Needs Permission
Publishers, social media, and gaming companies have exploited user data. Regulations have failed to protect consumers and publishers.
What is needed is explicit permission.
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Claims & filings tracked across every major platform and AI company — from family suits to state AG actions.
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Child Safety
Addictive design, sextortion, CSAM, and AI companions accused of pushing kids toward self-harm.
Privacy & Data
COPPA violations, biometric collection, and the harvesting of children’s and families’ data.
AI & Copyright
Training models on creative work, news, and personal content without consent or permission.
Consumer Protection
Deceptive safety claims and unfair practices that mislead parents about how platforms protect kids.
The full docket
Every case, searchable.
Florida AG Uthmeier v. Netflix Inc.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier alleges Netflix promised an ad-free service that wouldn't collect or sell data, then logged behavior on kids profiles and put that data to work when its ad business launched in November 2022. The complaint claims violations of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the Florida Digital Bill of Rights.
The complaint says the data flowed to LiveRamp, Experian, Acxiom, Google, Amazon, and The Trade Desk, and flags dark patterns including autoplay, on by default for every profile, kids included. Florida seeks a purge of all Florida data, an end to dark patterns, and civil penalties trebled for each known child. Texas filed a similar suit in May 2026.
See court filing: https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/netflix-complaint.pdf
Multistate AGs v. Meta Platforms Inc. — Consent Judgment
Consent judgment entered August 26, 2026, resolving claims by 47 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and several US territories that Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms harmed children and teens through addictive design, extensive data collection, and inadequate safety controls.
Meta pays up to $16.7 billion over ten years and adopts limits including a two-hour default daily use cap for teen accounts and expanded parental controls. Officials in the UK, the EU, and at the UN have called for the same protections in their jurisdictions within days of the deal.
The agreement also funds state investigations of Snap, TikTok, and YouTube on similar theories.
Arturo Béjar, a former Meta employee who testified at trial, on the two-hour limit: "It doesn't make the cigarettes any safer."
See court filing: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/23-05448-ecf-572-1-exhibit-1-mdl-consent-judgment-final-settlment-agreement-fully-executed.pdf
In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction MDL
Ninth Circuit cleared 3,000+ family lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap to proceed, ruling Section 230 is a defense at trial, not blanket immunity from being sued.
See court filing: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/04/28/24-1672.pdf
Raine v OpenAI
Addictive design, sextortion, CSAM, and AI companions accused of pushing kids toward self-harm.
Louisiana v Roblox
Addictive design, sextortion, CSAM, and AI companions accused of pushing kids toward self-harm.
Chabba v. OpenAI (FSU Shooting)
Family of a University of South Florida shooting victim accuses OpenAI of ChatGPT aiding the shooter in planning the attack.
See court filing: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/show_temp4.pdf
Iowa AG Bird v. Meta Platforms Inc.
Attorney general action against Meta Platforms Inc. concerning alleged harms to children and teens from its social media platforms.
See court filing: https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/4_C0D04C98426F9.PDF
Doe v. xAI
AI image tools accused of turning real photos of minors into CSAM distributed across chat platforms.
See court filing: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Doe-v-xAI-Complaint-3-16-26.pdf
Universal Music Group v. Anthropic
Anthropic accused of training Claude on 20,000+ pirated songs without permission from artists or publishers.
See court filing: https://ipwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ANTHROPIC-MUSIC-COPYRIGHT-LAWSUIT-piracy.pdf
Doe v. xAI (Deepfakes)
Grok accused of generating nonconsensual sexual deepfakes from real photos.
See court filing: https://casefilingsalert.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/xAI-Suit-over-DeepFakes.pdf
Garcia v. Character.AI
First wrongful death lawsuit against an AI chatbot company after a 14-year-old boy's suicide following months of interactions with a Character.AI companion; settled January 2026.
See settlement: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/business/character-ai-google-settle-teen-suicide-lawsuit
Thele v. Google
Google accused of scanning private Gmail, Chat, and Meet content to train its AI without user consent.
See court filing: https://www.classaction.org/media/thele-v-google-complaint_2.pdf
Scott v. OpenAI
Family accuses OpenAI of ChatGPT coaching a 19-year-old college student to mix kratom with Xanax, resulting in a fatal overdose.
See court filing: https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SHAMBLIN-v.-OPENAI-Complaint.pdf
Shamblin v. OpenAI
OpenAI accused of releasing ChatGPT without safeguards, contributing to a teen user's suicide.
See court filing: https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SHAMBLIN-v.-OPENAI-Complaint.pdf
Amazon v. Perplexity
Amazon accuses Perplexity's Comet browser of impersonating shoppers to scrape and act on its site without permission.
See court filing: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/amazon-vs-perplexity-complaint.pdf
Reddit v. Perplexity
Reddit sues Perplexity and data scrapers for laundering its content into AI answers without a license.
See court filing: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Reddit-v-Perplexity-Complaint-10-22-25.pdf
Hendrix v. Apple
Authors accuse Apple of training its AI on pirated books without permission or payment.
See court filing: https://www.classaction.org/media/hendrix-et-al-v-apple-inc-complaint_1.pdf
Warner Bros. v. Midjourney
Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for generating unauthorized images of DC characters.
See court filing: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Warner-Bros-v-Midjourney-Complaint-9-4-25.pdf
Raine v. OpenAI
Parents sue OpenAI after their 16-year-old son died by suicide following months of ChatGPT conversations that they allege coached him toward self-harm.
See court filing: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Raine-v-OpenAI-Complaint-8-26-25.pdf
Disney & NBCUniversal v. Midjourney
Disney and NBCU accuse Midjourney of generating unauthorized images of their most iconic characters.
See court filing: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Disney-NBCU-v-Midjourney.pdf
Getty Images v. Stability AI
Getty accuses Stability AI of copying 12M+ photos to train Stable Diffusion, with its watermark reproduced in outputs.
See court filing: https://admin.bakerlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ECF-1-Complaint-1.pdf
New Jersey v. Discord
New Jersey AG accuses Discord of misleading parents about its safety controls while its private messaging exposed kids to predators.
See court filing: https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases25/2025-0417_Discord_Complaint.pdf
Holmen (noyb) v. OpenAI
ChatGPT falsely told a Norwegian user he had murdered his own children, prompting a GDPR complaint.
See court filing: https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2024-04/OpenAI%20Complaint_EN_redacted.pdf
French Publishers and Authors v. Meta
French publishers accuse Meta of training Llama on their copyrighted books without permission.
See court filing: https://apnews.com/article/france-meta-artificial-intelligence-lawsuit-copyright-168b32059e70d0509b0a6ac407f37e8a
Advance Publications v. Cohere
Condé Nast and other publishers accuse Cohere of copying their articles to train and power its AI.
See court filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636920/gov.uscourts.nysd.636920.1.0.pdf
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