US EditionEpstein survivors sue Trump administration and Google over release of private information
Plaintiffs accuse DOJ of prioritizing volume over privacy, with around 100 survivors' details exposed and Google repeatedly republishing the data despite removal requests.
- On Thursday, a group of survivors of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice and Google, alleging the government mistakenly revealed their identities in a massive document release.
- The Justice Department released more than three million files in January related to the investigation into Epstein, but plaintiffs alleged the department violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by outing approximately 100 survivors.
- Plaintiffs seek minimum damages of $1,000 per survivor from the Justice Department and allege Google continues to republish the private information in search results and AI-generated content despite multiple notifications in February and March.
- The case filing stated "Survivors now face renewed trauma. Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein when they are, in reality, Epstein's victims." Plaintiff attorney Julie Erickson added survivors should not fear search results exposing their trauma.
- While the government later removed survivor information from its files, the lawsuit contends that online entities like Google continue to republish the data, refusing victims' pleas to take it down.
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Because the publication of documents on the Internet made their names known, victims of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sued the US government and Google. According to the plaintiffs, the U.S. Department of Justice "outed about a hundred survivors of the convicted sex offender by publishing their personal data and thus identifying them to the whole world." According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justi…
Epstein survivors sue Justice Department and Google over release of private information
A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Justice and Google on Thursday over the release of victim-identifying information in files related to the late convicted sex offender.
Victims of the late sex offender Epstein have sued the US government and the Internet company Google.
Victims of the sexual criminal filed a complaint on Thursday, after the U.S. Department of Justice released more than three million files related to the investigation in January, revealing the names of victims. The government removed the information, but the complainants accused Google of "continuously republishing it".
Victims of the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein filed a complaint after the accidental disclosure of their identity in court documents Victims of the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein
About "100 victims" are included in the documents published by the US administration. Images or information that continue to be exploited by the Internet giant, reviving to these victims the trauma experienced in the hands of the child criminal.
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