AOL LLC

On July 31, 2006 AOL posted a database containing roughly 20 million Internet search queries entered over a three-month period by approximately 658,000 different AOL members. AOL members have filed a class action lawsuit against AOL LLC, the Internet division of Time Warner Inc., claiming the company violated their privacy by posting their search queries online. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and seeks damages on behalf of all AOL members in the United States whose Internet search query data was disclosed without consent from January 1, 2004 until the present. The lawsuit claims that AOL violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the California Online Privacy Act of 2003, the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act, the California Customer Records Act, the California False Advertising Law, the California Unfair Competition Law, and common law.