Spitzer claims the company fraudulently sold personal data on millions
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Thursday a transfer from Washington, DC, for allegedly selling personal data on millions of consumers. Prosecutors, he cited the largest deliberate breach of privacy in Internet history.
Inc free Internet and whose owner Robert Martin and Peter Jewell were enrolled in the suit, New York State Supreme Court. The defendants are accused of selling lists of millions of customers free of three independent e-mail marketing, Despite the explicit promise, the lack of personal data to third parties would be continued. The costume of a court injunction to prevent companies with a turnover and seeks penalties of New York consumer fraud statutes .
From 2000 to 2004, free on its Web site several statements, privacy, including one who said: “We never give, lend or sell your name or communicated to others,” said Spitzer.
Yet during 2004 and 2005, Martin and Jewell repeatedly against these promises by selling client lists of distributors, dispatch, and then hundreds of millions of e-mail reply on behalf of their own cutomers, “said Spitzer . In any Deal, free between 1 million and 7 million confidential user records.
“This is regarded as one of the largest deliberate breach of the provisions of data protection ever discovered in the USA by the criminal prosecution authorities,” Spitzer said in a statement.
The suit also falsely denied that free, as the sharing of information has occurred. In a written response to the Spitzer investigation, Free said that “at any time during its existence … Free never sold, rented, lent or by e-mail or personal data of its users a third party and that the company has always care and control of ownership of this information.
In the trial, Spitzer cites data, and that contracts sharing testimony and other evidence, Internet marketing, store with Free.
Privacy is favourable, Spitzer cited a statement by the disclosure of the trial, praised the actions of the Attorney General.
“Without strong implementation guidelines for data protection are insignificant, Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC, said.
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