[IP] more on AOL Lawsuit
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brad Malin <b.malin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 30, 2006 4:44:06 PM EDT
To: "talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 class
action 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.
-brad
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
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AOL members sue over search data release
Suit accuses company of privacy violation, false advertising, unjust
enrichment
By Juan Carlos Perez
September 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.
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