AOL is facing a lawsuit filed in a District Court in Oakland, California by three subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online. They are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data, an Associated Press report said.
This is believed to be the first lawsuit 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, New York.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status and does not specify the amount of damages being sought.
AOL has apologized for the release, and fired a researcher, while their chief technology officer had resigned over this issue.
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