{"id":24167,"date":"2015-04-04T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24167"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:17:09","slug":"looking-for-an-internet-privacy-lawyer-here-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24167","title":{"rendered":"Looking for an internet privacy lawyer? Here he is"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s New York Times: Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech\u2019s Least Friended Man – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note: although the cap defines him as a class-action lawyer, his specialty is actually suing mighty internet tech companies like Facebook for gathering too much information about us, i.e., invading our privacy.<\/p>\n

Interesting to me, because I’ve noticed that the pop-up ads I get on my screen refer with alarming precision to stuff I’ve been looking at in the on-line catalogs of various companies.<\/p>\n

They know who I am, and that I’m looking at desks. <\/span>Gee.<\/p>\n

I’m not scared at the moment, but if I were looking at something I don’t want anyone to know about, I would be.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is high-tech advertising technique. Companies have figured out how to target their potential customers. They have been doing this since the birth of companies that sell product.<\/p>\n

I wonder how this will all pan out. Meanwhile, I think I’ve found a desk…<\/p>\n

UPDATE as of 4\/7\/15<\/strong>: At the end of the above cited article is this significant quote from a partner at the law firm discussed in the New York Times article:<\/p>\n

“Everyone always has a story about getting a check from a class action for 15 cents,” said Christopher Dore, an Edelson partner. Mr. Dore said he had made peace with people questioning his profession.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The funniest thing is you talk about it in the abstract, and people have one reaction,” he said, “but then you give them specific examples, like I’ll explain a case or something to them, and they’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s really messed up. you should definitely sue them.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

Which reminded me that I’ve reported here in Sidebar<\/strong> that I, too, was a plaintiff in a couple of class action lawsuits:<\/p>\n

Maybe, as I already mentioned, you\u2019ve bought a few shares of some publicly traded company. So you too might find yourself invited to become part of a class action lawsuit.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve expanded on those incidents in a chapter of my book, The Tao of Suing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever bought a few shares of some publicly traded company? If so, you, like me, might find yourself part of a class action lawsuit. It happens. If you are involved in any way with a large corporation, you too might wind up suing without knowing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once, though, I did know that I was a class action plaintiff. It was a lawsuit against a company in which I had owned stock. I was notified that a group of shareholders were suing, for what I\u2019ve forgotten. Did I want to join? Sure I did, just to find out how. In that case, I was required to do some work. I had to go through all my brokerage purchase notifications, dig out the ones applicable to that lawsuit, make copies, fill out a form, and send it to a court.<\/em><\/p>\n

The worth to me was hardly financial; I didn\u2019t own many shares. But I did the work anyway, because it was there to be done and I found it interesting and righteous. And eventually I did get some payment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of all, though, I got the satisfaction of knowing that I had, in a minuscule way, participated in controlling and punishing some corporate malfeasance against shareholders. I felt that my action, when joined with the many others who made up our class, strengthened our laws.<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. You do save all those brokerage purchase notices, right?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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