SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers at Gallo LLP on Wednesday amended an email-scanning lawsuit they filed earlier this year on behalf of four former UC-Berkeley students against Google Inc. to add more than 700 additional plaintiffs from schools across the country.
The flood of new plaintiffs in the suit raises the stakes significantly. Plaintiffs have sued Google under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which carries statutory damages of $10,000 for each plaintiff or $100 for each day the act is violated, whichever is higher. Gallo LLP’s Ray Gallo has posted a video on a website dedicated to the suit seeking to recruit even more plaintiffs from 23 colleges who used Google Apps for Education, which included a version of Google’s email service offered for free to universities. The suit claims that though those schools assured students that their messages wouldn’t be scanned for advertising purposes, they were. The suit further claims that Google misled the schools about its scanning practices.
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