AOL Subscribers Sue Over Release Of Search Data
Three AOL subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.
The lawsuit is believed to be the first in the wake of AOL's intentional release of some 19 million search requests made over a three-month period by more than 650,000 subscribers, including the three plaintiffs - two unnamed Californians and Kasadore Ramkissoon of Richmond County, N.Y.
Filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., the lawsuit seeks class-action status. It does not specify the amount of damages being sought.
John Dominguez, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, said AOL ought to do more.
"People paid AOL with the belief that their privacy was going to be protected," he said Monday. "That's not what happened."
AOL declined comment on the lawsuit.
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