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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:48:06 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Malin <b.malin () vanderbilt edu> Date: September 30, 2006 4:44:06 PM EDT To: "talk () LAB privacy cs cmu edu" <talk () LAB privacy cs cmu edu> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: AOL Lawsuit It's been news for several days, but just in case you missed it. As expected, AOL members are suing over the data breach. I smell a classaction lawsuit brewing. Personally, I don't think that this story can be taken lightly as this may be one of the most egregious privacy violations of
recent times. -bradhttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&arti
cleId=9003619&intsrc=it_blogwatch AOL members sue over search data release Suit accuses company of privacy violation, false advertising, unjust enrichment By Juan Carlos PerezSeptember 26, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Three AOL LLC members have sued the company over its controversial release of member search-engine records, in what their lawyers are billing as the first such lawsuit seeking national
class-action status.The three members are charging the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary with, among other things, privacy violation, false advertising and unjust enrichment.
Two unnamed AOL members residing in California and Kasadore Ramkissoon, who lives in New York, filed their lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California.The lawsuit seeks monetary relief for all affected AOL members in the U.S. whose search data was disclosed without consent from Jan. 1, 2004, to the
present.The plaintiffs also ask the court to instruct AOL not to store or maintain users' Web search records and to destroy the Web search records it currently
has. AOL declined to provide comment for this story. <snip> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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