Epstein Survivors Sue Trump Administration and Google Over Alleged Privacy Violations (3/27/26)

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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode

of the Epstein Chronicles.

The DOJ and Pound Bondi had plenty of time

to go through the Epstein files

and redact the names of the survivors.

And instead of doing that, what they did

was redact the names of people

that were allegedly involved

with Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit,

whether that's enabling it

or being involved in the abuse itself.

Those people had their names redacted,

but the survivors, at least over 100 of them,

their information was left out there

for the whole world to see.

And of course, that's led to a whole bunch of harassment

for a lot of these women.

And does it shocking?

Considering people like Anna Paulino Luna,

who have no idea what they're even talking about,

start dropping grenades and calling these women,

traffickers themselves,

you have to be very clear with what you're saying.

If you wanna say that certain women help Jeffrey Epstein,

the answer is yes, they did.

The core four.

But if you're gonna try and act like these girls

who were 14, 15, 16 years old

and who were groomed

and had this behavior normalized to them,

are traffickers themselves?

And on top of that,

you have the president of the United States

calling it a hoax.

Yeah, you're gonna draw out the crazies.

You're gonna draw out people

who think that they're helping the president

fight his hoax by harassing these women

or calling these women traffickers or prostitutes

and that whole narrative began

when Anna Paulino Luna started dropping grenades.

So now the survivors have banded together

and they're suing the Trump administration and Google

over the release of their private information.

And in this article from NBC,

we're gonna dive a little bit deeper.

Headlined, Epstein survivors

sue Trump administration and Google

over a release of private information.

This article was authored by Chloe Atkins.

A group of Epstein survivors filed a class action lawsuit

against the Trump administration and Google on Thursday

over the disclosure of personal information found

in the release of the files related

to the late sex offender over the past several months.

And I can already hear the counter to this.

Oh, well, you wanted all this information out there.

Now it's out there and you're suing people.

Well, yeah, they didn't follow the law.

You might want to add that part.

You know, the part where the survivor names

should have been redacted and hidden.

That didn't really happen, did it?

And with all the man hours and all the complaining

we heard from Todd Blanche and the DOJ,

you think that they'd be on top of it,

but I guess this was just, you know,

a coincidence as well, right?

Just more negligence.

The United States, acting through the DOJ,

made a deliberate policy choice to prioritize

a rapid, large volume disclosure over protection

of Epstein survivor's privacy, the plaintiff said,

adding that the Justice Department

outed approximately 100 survivors

of the convicted sexual predator,

publishing their private information

and identifying them to the world.

And when I was going through the files,

I saw a names from Florida that I had never seen before.

Those names were kept under guard for years,

almost impossible to get that information.

Then all of a sudden, all those names are released.

And remember a lot of those girls

who are women now down in Florida,

they didn't want anything to do with any of this.

And while I think that it's good to get everything out

into the light, we can't force people to,

you know, tell their story,

we can't force people to relive trauma.

And when you out people like this,

that's what you're doing.

Now they have to answer questions,

their kids are going to talk to them,

hey, mom, what the hell?

And a lot of people are trying to avoid it.

But the government, of course,

they couldn't be bothered to do their job correctly

and not only their job, but what the law requires.

While the government later withdrew survivors,

personal information from the publicly released files,

the survivor said that online entities like Google

continuously republish it,

refusing victims, please, to take it down.

Specifically, the plaintiff said

their personal information continues to be displayed

in search results and AI generated content.

Unfortunately, once something gets on the internet,

very difficult to get it off

and unfortunately, once something's out there,

it's out there.

All it takes is one person downloading it, right?

Survivor is now faced with new trauma.

Strangers call them, email them,

threaten their physical safety,

and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein

when they are in reality,

Epstein's victims, the complaint reads.

And the marching orders, of course,

come from Donald Trump.

But I place the blame on Anna Paulina Luna

and that Tweet she made a few weeks ago,

calling these girls human traffickers,

saying that some of the women that were at the hearing

were human traffickers themselves.

And it's telling, right?

She's more mad about that

than she is about Elaine Maxwell getting the homie hookup

or the fact that she didn't show up

to talk to the less Wexner

or the fact that no investigation really ever happened

in the beginning where Wexner or Indyke or Khan

or anybody important was ever spoken to.

But she's real mad about these women who were abused

who became traffickers.

She knew exactly what she was doing

and she got the result she was looking for

and everything about Anna Paulina Luna turns me off.

She's an influencer,

larping as a lawmaker and that shit is dangerous.

The Justice Department and Google

did not immediately respond or request for comment

on Thursday night.

Yeah, well, I don't expect the DOJ to say a word.

They're infallible here.

They've never done anything wrong

and every decision they've ever made

is to make the survivor's life better.

Isn't that what Todd Blanche told us?

Todd Babybilly Blanche.

The world's biggest dumb dumb.

The truth is, this has never been about the survivors.

It's about protecting Donald Trump

and Donald Trump's friends.

That's what it's all about.

These fools don't care about the survivors.

Hell, Pam Bondy won't even turn around

and acknowledge their existence,

but they care about the survivors, huh?

Everything's based on the survivors.

No, it's not.

Sorry.

In a February second letter to judges Richard Burman

and Paul Engelmeyer in the Southern District of New York,

US Attorney Jake Layton said the justice department

was in the process of removing documents

that included victim identifying information.

The department has worked all hours

through the weekend from the point

when the first victim related concerns were raised,

the letter said, the department now was taken down

several thousands of documents and the media

that may have inadvertently included

victim identifying information,

due to various factors, including human or technical error.

Oh, give me a break.

You had all those lawyers looking at these documents

and they can't do basic redactions,

especially with AI out there now.

You can't get it tuned up

where you have it looking for keywords, names.

None of it passes the sniff test.

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And what they're going to do is they're just going to keep

doubling down on the great job that they did

because they know nobody's here to hold them accountable.

There's no oversight.

Who's going to hold them accountable?

James Comer, or how about Ron Wyden?

Ron Wyden can't even hold his own kid accountable.

Never mind holding anyone else accountable

when it comes to Epstein.

The letter added that the Justice Department

was continuously evaluating its process

and making further enhancements as necessary

to address victims' concerns while complying

with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

President Donald Trump signed that measure into law

in November.

The Justice Department had made assurances

that it would protect their survivor's privacy

in the release.

The plaintiffs are seeking minimum damages

of $1,000 per survivor from the Justice Department

and punitive damages in amounts sufficient

to punish and deter Google.

The group also asked the Court to order Google

to immediately and permanently take down

the survivor's personal information.

And look, I'm sure Google can take some of it down,

but once it's out there, like I was saying, it's out there.

And people are going to do what they're going to do

with it, unfortunately.

The survivors said that Google has the technological

capability to remove content and response to legal requests

about sensitive personal information.

Google's refusal to use such tools, in this case,

shows its conduct is reckless in disregard

for the well-being of plaintiff and other victims

and willful the lawsuit says.

Survivors have notified Google about the unlawful disclosure

multiple times in February and March, the complaint says,

adding that the content remains viewable on Google.

So they're going to end up having to take that down.

But, and here's the big but.

It's still going to be there forever.

You know the saying?

The internet never forgets.

The survivors said the Justice Department

has violated the Privacy Act of 1974

by disclosing survivor's information without consent.

The plaintiffs also brought civil claims against Google

over violations of California's unfair competition law,

invasion of privacy, and negligent inflection

of emotional distress, as well as violation

of California civil code and targets doxing.

No survivor of sexual abuse should have to live in fear

that a stranger can type their name into a search bar

and instantly find out about their worst trauma.

Yet that's exactly what happened here.

Julie Erickson, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys,

said in a statement on Thursday.

The DOJ opened the door by unlawfully disclosing

victim identifying information and Google

is holding that door wide open.

Even after being warned about the damage that it's causing.

So look, I don't know if this is going to be successful,

but I think it's a good move on the part of the survivors.

It's a shot over the bell, right?

Look, you dudes better do the right thing

or you can expect more lawsuits.

Now, the question is, is that going

to be enough to deter the DOJ from playing their games?

Well, I guess we're about to find out.

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I'm the host of Big Technology podcast,

a longtime reporter and an on-air contributor to CNBC.

And if you're like me, you're trying

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is changing the business world and our lives.

So each week on Big Technology,

I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech

and outsiders trying to influence it.

Asking where this is all going,

they come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon,

and plenty more.

So if you want to be smart with your wallet,

your career choices, and meetings with your colleagues

and at dinner parties, listen to Big Technology podcast

or ever you get your podcasts.