Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, has filed a lawsuit against email lead generation firm Gratis Internet. The suit is asking for $2,000 per defendant and $500 for each New York address that received email in conflict with Gratis’ privacy policy.


Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, has filed a lawsuit against email lead generation firm Gratis Internet. The suit is asking for $2,000 per defendant and $500 for each New York address that received email in conflict with Gratis’ privacy policy.

“Depending on the number of New Yorkers’ addresses in the files, potential damages could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars…New York’s attorney general claims that Gratis sold the names of more than 7 million of its users to three e-mail marketing firms, Datran Media, JDR Media and Jumpstart Technologies, which subsequently sent millions of unsolicited commercial e-mails to the addresses. [source]

 

 

 

 

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