![]() ![]() The Associated Press reports that the suit was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, which has yet to certify its class-action status.Īccording to the AP report, Avid Life Media is refusing requests to comment on this particular suit, but has been defending itself by claiming that “the personal details exposed in the initial data leak can’t be used to prove the infidelity of their clients” – an assertion that would seem easily refuted by the fact that quite a few of the clients have been positively identified by the combination of subscriber and payment transaction data the Impact Team released. The statement claims that “numerous former users of have approached the law firms to inquire about their privacy rights under Canadian law.” He joined the website for a short time in search of companionship but never met anybody in person from the site.” According to a press release from law firms Charley Lawyers and Sutts and Strosberg LLP, Shore is “a disabled widower” who was “single again after 30 years of marriage after he lost his wife to breast cancer. The lawyers chose a sympathetic primary plaintiff for their monster suit, an Ottawa subscriber named Eliot Shore. UPI notes that the Canadian suit does not name the Impact Team hackers who stole the data, only the corporate entities that failed to protect it. This was, not coincidentally, the primary charge leveled by the Impact Team hackers who stole, and ultimately released, the Ashley Madison subscriber database. The suit directly references the service that charged clients an extra fee to completely and permanently delete their information, but clearly did nothing of the sort, since people who paid the fee are included in the client list posted online. According to a UPI report, the Canadians are suing because Ashley Madison failed to protect the privacy of its users.
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