By Melissa Quinn
Publication Date: 2026-03-27 14:00:00
Washington — A group of survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse is suing the Trump administration and Google over the release of their personal information in troves of files made public by the Justice Department.
The survivors filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in California on Thursday arguing that the Justice Department’s disclosure of their personally identifiable information was a violation of federal privacy law. They are seeking at least $1,000 per class member from the government and an unspecific amount of damages from Google.
In their lawsuit, the survivors said that while the Justice Department took down their information after it was published in late 2025 and earlier this year, online entities like Google continued to republish it and have refused requests to remove it.
“Survivors now face renewed trauma,” they said in their suit. “Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring…
