{"id":443,"date":"2016-04-22T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/04\/22\/legal-trend-sue-over-data-breach-can-you-remain-anonymous\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:36:00","slug":"legal-trend-sue-over-data-breach-can-you-remain-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legal-trend-sue-over-data-breach-can-you-remain-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Sue over Data Breach. Can you remain anonymous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. Nien. Nyett. Nej. A federal judge ruled that people caught in the data breach at Ashley Madison cannot remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did these plaintiffs want to be anonymous?<\/strong>\u00a0Fear of the impact to the professional and personal lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did the court deny the request?\u00a0<\/strong>Because the data breach is not equal to instances when a person can remain anonymous. Those instances are reserved for\u00a0minors, rape, or other highly sensitive matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2016\/04\/21\/people-suing-ashley-madison-for-last-years-hack-cant-be-anonymous-judge-rules\/\"><strong>Washington Post |\u00a0<\/strong>People suing Ashley Madison for last year\u2019s hack can\u2019t be anonymous, judge rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Nien. Nyett. Nej. A federal judge ruled that people caught in the data breach at Ashley Madison cannot remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did these plaintiffs want to be anonymous?<\/strong>\u00a0Fear of the impact to the professional and personal lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did the court deny the request?\u00a0<\/strong>Because the data breach is not equal to instances when a person can remain anonymous. Those instances are reserved for\u00a0minors, rape, or other highly sensitive matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2016\/04\/21\/people-suing-ashley-madison-for-last-years-hack-cant-be-anonymous-judge-rules\/\"><strong>Washington Post |\u00a0<\/strong>People suing Ashley Madison for&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-legal-trend","category-private-corporations","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}