EKO has filed a federal class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of roughly 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein whose personally identifying information was unlawfully exposed by the U.S. Department of Justice and is still being pushed out to the world by Google LLC.

 

Between December 2025 and January 2026, the DOJ dumped millions of pages of largely unredacted records related to the Epstein investigation. Those releases exposed names, contact information, photographs, and other highly sensitive details about Epstein’s sexual abuse survivors—information that federal law is supposed to keep under lock and key.

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The government has already admitted that it improperly released about 9,500 documents containing victims’ unredacted personal information, chalking it up to “human errors” and “technical errors.” But even after pulling those files from its own site, the government has left survivors exposed: their sensitive information is still just a search away on Google’s search engine and AI products.

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The complaint alleges that the DOJ violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by disclosing survivors’ protected information without consent and without any lawful basis. It further alleges that Google is flouting California privacy laws by continuing to index, cache, and generate content containing survivors’ personal information through its search engine and AI Mode—even after repeated, detailed takedown requests from survivors and their counsel.

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The case is Jane Doe 1 v. United States of America and Google LLC, Case No. 5:26-cv-02624, and you can find the complaint here. If you have information about the government's disclosure or Google's continued publication of survivors' personal information, we want to talk. Reach out here. 

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