{"id":57,"date":"2006-05-20T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/05\/20\/google-sued-settles\/"},"modified":"2006-05-20T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T02:15:45","slug":"google-sued-settles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/05\/20\/google-sued-settles\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sued, Settles"},"content":{"rendered":"

My email inbox just informed me that I can be part of a class action lawsuit against what seems to be a slowly evil-ified Google. Let’s see what happend.<\/p>\n

\r\nWHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? \r\nPlaintiffs Lane\u2019s Gifts and Collectibles and Max Caulfield d\/b\/a Caulfield Investigations allege \r\nthat Google breached its contracts with class members, unjustly enriched itself, and engaged in \r\na civil conspiracy by failing to adequately detect and stop \u201cclick fraud\u201d or other invalid or \r\nimproper clicks on online advertisements.  Google denies plaintiffs\u2019 allegations and contends \r\nthat all payments that it has received from class members for online advertising were legally \r\nand properly charged, and that it has neither breached its contracts with class members nor \r\nviolated any other law through the actions alleged in the case.  The Court has not made a \r\ndetermination whether plaintiffs\u2019 or Google\u2019s contentions are correct. \r\n<\/pre>\n
Interesting.  I need more time to think about the ramifications here.  Consider this a Johnny on the spot type report for now.  At first I thought this was spam until I noticed that the same message was repeated in over 8 languages.  Seemed a little *too* advanced for spam.
\nThe Legal notice has been attached so you can read it.<\/p>\n
Updates: I haven’t figured out how to link my uploaded notice to this post.  I was glancing at the notice while on break from my econ studies and found this table of my “rights”.  I’m a little disturbed at the default action of “Do Nothing” which was my initial inclination.  Doing nothing means I’m automatically accepting of this suit and implicitly part of the “class” represented.  It means that I am not allowed to engage in litagation with Google going forward with regard to this subject matter.  <\/p>\n
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS
\nDo Nothing
\nYou will automatically be eligible to submit a claim form for Google advertising credits and will give up your ability to sue Google over the subject matter of this case. <\/p>\n
Exclude Yourself
\nYou will not be able to submit a claim form for Google advertising credits.  This is the only option that allows you to bring or participate in another lawsuit against Google about the subject matter of this case. <\/p>\n
Object
\nWrite to the Court and parties about why you don\u2019t like the settlement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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