C.
Remaining State Law Claims
We will affirm the District Court’s dismissals of the
remaining state law claims against Google.
The District Court dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim
under the California Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. &
Prof. Code § 17200, on the basis that, under the statute,
“private standing is limited to any ‘person who . . . has lost
money or property’ as a result of unfair competition.”139
Likewise, the District Court dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim
under the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access
and Fraud Act, Cal. Penal Code § 502, on the basis of § 502’s
requirement that a suit may only be brought by one who has
“suffer[ed] damage or loss by reason of a violation.”140 As
discussed above in connection with the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act, the complaint fails to show damage or actual loss.
Accordingly, the dismissal of these claims was proper.
The California Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Cal.
Civ. Code § 1770, proscribes various “unfair methods of
competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices
undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result
or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to
any consumer.”141 On appeal, the plaintiffs argue that they
139
Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court, 246 P.3d 877, 884 (Cal.
2011) (quoting § 17204).
140
Cal. Penal Code § 502(e).
141
Cal. Civ. Code § 1770(a).
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