Yetter Coleman has filed a proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that OpenAI collected and used children’s personal information through ChatGPT without valid parental consent.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two minor plaintiffs and a proposed nationwide class of children who created ChatGPT accounts and shared personal information through the platform. The complaint alleges that OpenAI used that information to train its AI models and that its terms of use and privacy practices fail to obtain legally valid parental consent as required by law.
The plaintiffs seek relief on behalf of children whose data was allegedly collected and request that class members receive a proportional share of OpenAI equity, or its cash value, tied to the value derived from their information.
The proposed class is represented by Yetter Coleman attorneys Paul Yetter, Jim Zucker, Shannon Smith, Julia Risley, and Eva Robins, along with co-counsel from Sheeren Law, the EdTech Law Center, and Umberg/Zipser.
Read the full press release here.
Read the complaint here.
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