more on AOL Lawsuit

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From: Brad Malin <[email protected]>
Date: September 30, 2006 4:44:06 PM EDT
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Farber <[email protected]>
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

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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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