{"id":335878,"date":"2010-02-18T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002270"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:58:24","slug":"google-buzz-subject-of-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335878","title":{"rendered":"Google Buzz Subject Of Class Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/google_logo5_thumb-thumb-300x139-37135.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>We had a feeling it would come to this. Lawyers in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., have filed a class action lawsuit against Google for, among other allegations, violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with its recently launched Google Buzz social networking tool. <\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed in a San Jose, Calif., court on Wednesday. And though the only named plaintiff is a woman from Florida, the lawyers behind the case say they are seeking to represent the 31.2 million Gmail users whose <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-makes-private-contact-info-public.html\" >private contact list was made public<\/a> when Buzz was launched without warning and with little explanation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to unspecified monetary damages, the suit is asking the court to prevent Google from releasing any sort of future product that might have a similarly invasive effect on users&#8217; private information.<\/p>\n<p>As of this posting, Google had not yet replied to the lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/techchron\/detail?entry_id=57438&#038;o=3&#038;gta=commentslistpos#commentslistpos\" >Local Class Action Complaint Filed Against Google Buzz<\/a> [SF Gate via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17852_3-10455573-71.html\" >cnet<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a feeling it would come to this. Lawyers in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., have filed a class action lawsuit against Google for, among other allegations, violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with its recently launched Google Buzz social networking tool. The complaint was filed in a San Jose, Calif., court on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}