Updated: 11.10.2025
Filed on: 10.17.2025
M.C. v. Google
On October 17, 2025, a Utah family anonymously filed a complaint in California federal court against Google LLC, which markets Chromebooks and related school products for use by students in K–12 education.
The complaint alleges that those products are dangerously defective because they fail to prevent minor students from accessing harmful content like pornography on the internet and instead promote such content. The complaint further alleges that Google failed to warn schools, parents, and students about the dangers its products pose to students and instead marketed them as safe.
The lawsuit describes how the child’s school-issued Chromebook caused him to develop a debilitating pornography addiction and how Google’s design choices and failure to warn prevented the child’s school and family from protecting him. The plaintiffs contend that Google’s dangerous design choices were intentional because they serve Google’s data-monetization business model and thus put profits over student safety.
Plaintiff asserts claims under:
- Strict Liability – Design Defect
- Strict Liability – Failure to Warn
- Negligence – Design
- Negligence – Failure to Warn
- Negligence
- Civil Rights Violation
- California’s Unfair Competition Law
Key filings: