Dow Jones Company Inc. sold and exchanged Wall Street Journal print subscribers’ personal information to third parties and data collectors without customers’ consent, a proposed class action in Michigan alleged.
Plaintiffs Christopher and Sherree Rentola claimed that the exposure of their WSJ print newspaper subscription information led to junk mail from charities and other organizations, according to their June 16 complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
They alleged Dow Jones violated a provision in a Michigan state privacy law that bans any company selling written material from the disclosing “to any person, other than ...
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