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Epstein Survivors Sue Trump Administration and Google Over Alleged Privacy Violations · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. The DOJ and Pam Bondi had plenty of
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  time to go through the Epstein files and redact the
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  names of the survivors, and instead of doing that, what
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  they did was redact the names of people that were
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  allegedly involved with Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit, whether that's enabling it
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  or being involved in the abuse itself. Those people had
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  their names redacted, but the survivors, at least over one
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  hundred of them, their information was left out there for
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  the whole world to see. And of course that's led
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  to a whole bunch of harassment for a lot of
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  these women. And is it shocking considering people like Anna
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  Paulina Luna, who have no idea what they're even talking about,
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  start dropping grenades and calling these women traffickers themselves. You
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  have to be very with what you're saying. If you
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  want to say that certain women help Jeffrey Epstein, the
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  answer is yes, they did the Core four. But if
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  you're going to try and act like these girls who
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  were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years old and who were groomed
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  and had this behavior normalized to them are traffickers themselves.
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  And on top of that, you have the President of
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  the United States calling it a hoax. Yeah, you're going
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  to draw out the crazies. You're going to draw out
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  people who think that they're helping the president fight his
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  hoax by harassing these women or calling these women traffickers
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  or prostitutes. And that whole narrative began when Anna Paulina
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  Luna started dropping grenades. So now the survivors have banded
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  together and they're suing the Trump administration and Google over
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  the release of their private information. And in this article
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  from NBC, we're going to dive a little bit deeper
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  headline Epstein survivors sue Trump administration, Google over release of
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  private information. This article was authored by Chloe Atkins. A
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  group of Epstein's survivors filed a class action lawsuit against
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  the Trump administration in Google on Thursday over the disclosure
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  of personal information found in the release of the files
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  related to the late sex offender over the past several months.
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  And I can already hear the counter to this, Oh, well,
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  you wanted all this information out there, now it's out there,
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  and you're suing people. Well, yeah, they didn't follow the law.
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  You might want to add that part, you know, the
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  part where the survivor names should have been redacted and hidden.
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  That didn't really happen, did it. And with all the
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  man hours and all the complaining we heard from Todd
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  Blanche and the DOJ, you'd think that they'd be on
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  top of it. But I guess this was just, you know,
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  a coincidence as well, right, just more negligence. The United States,
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  acting through the DOJ, made a deliberate policy choice to
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  prioritize rapid, large volume disclosure over protection of Epstein's survivors privacy,
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  the plaintiff said, adding that the Justice Department outed approximately
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  one hundred survivors of the convicted sexual predator, publishing their
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  private information and identifying them to the world. And when
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  I was going through the files, I saw names from
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  Florida that I had never seen before. Those names were
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  kept under guard for years, almost impossible to get that information.
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  Then all of a sudden, all those names are released.
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  And remember a lot of those girls who were women
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  now down in Florida, they didn't want anything to do
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  with any of this. And while I think that it's
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  good to get everything out into the light. We can't
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  force people to tell their story. We can't force people
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  to relive trauma. And when you out people like this,
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  that's what you're doing. They have to answer questions. Their
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  kids are going to talk to them, Hey, mom, what
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  the hell? And a lot of people are trying to
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  avoid it. But the government, of course, they couldn't be
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  bothered to do their job correctly, and not only their job,
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  but what the law requires. While the government later withdrew
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  survivors personal information from the publicly released files, the survivors
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  said that online entities like Google continuously republish it, refusing
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  victims please to take it down. Specifically, the plaintiff said
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  their personal information continues to be displayed in search results
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  and AI generated content. Unfortunately, once something gets on the Internet,
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  very difficult to get it off. And unfortunately, once something's
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  out there, it's out there. All it takes is one
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  person downloading it. Right, Survivors now face for new trauma.
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  Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and
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  accuse them of conspiring with Epstein, when they are in
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  reality Epstein's victims. The complaint reads, and the marching orders,
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  of course come from Donald Trump, But I placed the
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  blame on Anna Paulina Luna and that tweet she made
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  a few weeks ago calling these girls human traffickers, saying
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  that some of the women that were at the hearing
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  were human traffickers themselves, and it's telling right. She's more
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  mad about that than she is about Gallaine Maxwell getting
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  the homie hook up, or the fact that she didn't
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  show up to talk the less Wexner, or the fact
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  that no investigation really ever happened in the beginning where
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  Wexner or in Dyke or Khan or anybody important was
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  ever spoken to. But she's real mad about these women
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  who were abused, who became traffickers. She knew exactly what
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  she was doing and she got the result she was
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  looking for. And everything about Anna Paulina Luna turns me off.
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  She's an influencer, LARPing as a low and that shit
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  is dangerous. The Justice Department and Google did not immediately
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  respond to request for comment on Thursday night. Yeah, well,
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  I don't expect the DOJ to say a word. They're
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  infallible here. They've never done anything wrong, and every decision
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  they've ever made is to make the survivor's life better.
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  Isn't that what Todd Blanche told us, Todd Baby Billy Blanche,
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  the world's biggest dumb dumb. The truth is, this has
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  never been about the survivors. It's about protecting Donald Trump
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  and Donald Trump's friends. That's what it's all about. These
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  fools don't care about the survivors. Hell, Pam Bond, you
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  won't even turn around and acknowledge their existence. But they
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  care about the survivors. Huh, everything's based on the survivors. No,
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  it's not. Sorry. In a February second letter to Judges
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  Richard Berman and Paul Ingelmeyer in the Southern District of
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  New York, US attorney J. Clayton said the Justice Department
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  was in the process removing documents that included victim identifying information.
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  The Department has worked all hours through the weekend from
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  the point when the first victim related concerns were raised.
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  The letter said, the Department now is taken down several
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  thousands of documents and the media that may have inadvertently
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  included victim identifying information due to various factors, including human
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  or technical error. Oh give me a break. You add
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  all those lawyers looking at these documents, and they can't
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  do basic redactions, especially with AI out there now. You
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  can't get it tuned up where you have it looking
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  for keywords names. None of it passes the sniff test.
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  And what they're gonna do is they're just going to
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  keep doubling down on the great job that they did
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  because they know nobody's here to hold them accountable. There's
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  no oversight. Who's going to hold them accountable? James Comer
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  or how about Ron Wyden. Ron Wyden can't even hold
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  his own kid accountable, never mind holding anyone else accountable
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  when it comes to Epstein. The letter added that the
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  Justice Department was continuously evaluating its process and making further
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  enhancements as necessary to address victim's concerns while complying with
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  the Epstein Files Transparency Act. President Donald Trump signed that
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  measure into law in November. The Justice Department had made
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  assurances that it would protect the survivor's privacy in the release.
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  The plaintiffs are seeking minimum damages of one thousand dollars
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  per survivor from the Justice Department and punitive damages in
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  amount sufficient to punish and deter Google. The group also
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  asked the court to order Google to immediately and permanently
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  take down the survivor's personal information. And look, I'm sure
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  Google can take some of it down, but once it's
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  out there, like I was saying, it's out there and
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  people are going to do what they're going to do
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  with it. Unfortunately. The survivors said that Google has the
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  technological capability to remove content and response to legal requests
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  about sensitive personal information. Google's refusal to use such tools
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  in this case shows its conduct is reckless, in disregard
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  for the well being a plaintiff and other victims, and wilful.
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  The lawsuit says. Survivors have notified Google about the unlawful
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  disclosure multiple times in February and March, the complaint says,
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  adding that the content remains viewable on Google, so they're
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  going to end up having to take that down. But
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  and here's the big butt, it's still going to be
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  there forever, you know, the saying the Internet never forgets.
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  The survivors said the Justice Department has violated the Privacy
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  Act of nineteen seventy four by disclosing survivor's information without consent.
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  The plaintiffs also brought civil claims against Google over violations
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  of California's on fair Competition law, invasion of privacy and
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  negligent infliction of a mo distress, as well as violation
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  of California Civil Code and targets docksing, no survivor of
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  sexual abuse should have to live in fear that a
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  stranger can type their name into a search bar and
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  instantly find out about their worst trauma. Yet that's exactly
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  what happened here. Julie Ericson, one of the plaintiff's attorneys,
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  said in a statement on Thursday. The DOJ opened the
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  door by unlawfully disclosing victim identifying information, and Google is
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  holding that door wide open, even after being warned about
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  the damage that it's causing. So, look, I don't know
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  if this is going to be successful, but I think
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  it's a good move on the part of the survivors.
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  It's a shot over the bell, right. Look, you dudes
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  better do the right thing or you can expect more lawsuits. Now.
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  The question is is that going to be enough to
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  deter the DOJ from playing their games? Well, I guess
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  we're about to find out. All the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box