Filed on: 06.25.2025
Z.G. v. Google LLC
On June 25, 2025, a California child filed a complaint in California state 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 provide elementary-school children virtually unrestricted access to the internet by default, where children may encounter all manner of dangerous content and communications. The complaint further alleges that Google failed to warn schools, parents, and students about the dangers its products pose to student and instead marketed them as safe.
The lawsuit describes how, using her school-issued Chromebook, the child was able to create an account on Discord, a platform known for child predation. While using the platform, the child was targeted and sexually victimized by an anonymous Discord user for weeks until her father discovered the abuse. The plaintiff contends 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
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