Epstein victims sue Google, Trump administration for disclosing personal information

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A tablet screen displays a portrait of Jeffrey Epstein beside the U.S. Department of Justice website page titled Epstein Library, Feb. 11, 2026. Veronique Tournier | Afp | Getty Images A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of herself and other survivors against the Trump administration and Google for allegedly wrongfully disclosing and publishing personal information about them . The suit, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California , where Google is headquartered, claims the Justice Department "outed" about 100 Epstein survivors in late 2025 and early 2026, and that even after the government acknowledged the mistake and withdrew the information, "online entities like Google continuously republish it, refusing victim's pleas to take it down." With respect to Google, the suit says the company's core search engine and its artificial intelligence summary feature called AI mode were responsible for publishing victims' personal information. "Survivors now face renewed trauma," the suit says. "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 was filed by an Epstein victim who used the pseudonym Jane Doe. After months of pressure, the DOJ earlier this year released more than 3 million additional pages of documents related to Epstein , including images and videos. In August 2019, Epstein killed himself in a jail in New York City, weeks after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges. In taking on Google, the plaintiffs are testing whether a major safety net for internet companies and social media sites has its limitations. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act governs internet speech and has long allowed major platforms in the U.S. to avoid liability for content appearing on thei...