Grammarly Sued Over Feature Touting Unwitting ‘Expert’ Feedback

A New York-based investigative journalist sued the owner and operator of the editing tool Grammarly, saying it uses the names and identities of several authors for its writing feedback feature.

Grammarly’s “Expert Review” tool offers its users comments and feedback from authors, journalists, editors, and lawyers, who were neither aware of nor consented to the use of their names with the product, according to the proposed class action filed against California-based Superhuman Platform Inc..

Plaintiff Julia Angwin discovered Grammarly’s use of her name through another journalist’s reporting, said the complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern ...