Epstein victims sue Google and DoJ for “dumping” their personal information
Victims found that their personal information had been released by the Department of Justice. Then, Google’s AI Mode neatly organized the victims’ PII to allegedly be used in harassment campaigns. Now, Google and the US government are being sued.
A group of victims is suing Google and the Department of Justice (DoJ) for wrongfully disclosing their personal information that “violated the rights of the survivors” and “renewed trauma” related to the Epstein files.
Following public outrage that urged the US government to release files relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the DoJ eventually released 3.5 million pages of files in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The act was signed into law by President Trump on November 19th, 2025, and the files were released in December of the same year.
In late 2025 and early 2026, the DoJ “outed approximately 100 survivors…publishing their personal information and identifying them to the world,” the lawsuit alleges.
The US government supposedly acknowledged this privacy violation and removed information relating to victims’ personally identifiable information (PII).
The information allegedly leaked during the release includes:
- Full names
- Telephone numbers
- Email addresses
- Cities of residence
- Occupations
- Photographic images
However, lawyers allege that online entities like Google “continously republished it (victims’ PII), refusing victims’ pleas to take it down.”
This has caused survivors to “face renewed trauma” as netizens have allegedly called and emailed victims, threatening their physical safety and accusing them of being involved voluntarily with Epstein, when in fact, they’re victims of the disgraced financier.
The victims are suing Google and the DoJ for damages, as the tech giant, in particular, is still displaying survivors’ PII in search results and AI-generated content, the lawsuit claims.
Lawyers also claim that these entities have “actual knowledge of the unauthorized and unlawful nature of the disclosure” and are aware that this could do “severe harm” to victims.
Victims have allegedly suffered emotional distress, reputational harm, invasion of privacy, harassment, threats to their physical safety, economic losses, and other compensable damages.
When the files were initially released, the DoJ published millions of pages, including victim statements, investigative files, and witness interviews that were publicly available on its website.
This included a swathe of unredacted PII pertaining to the victims.
The US government claimed that this disclosure was due to human and technical errors, and that quality control measures were negatively affected by limitations in its document review platform.
FBI Director Kash Patel declared that his team would “bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be.”
The lawsuit argues that the DoJ proceeded to “dump millions of pages of Epstein-related records” in “reckless disregard” of the victims' privacy, and this disclosure didn’t follow proper review and redaction protocols.
As for Google, lawyers allege that the company’s “AI Mode” allowed anyone to contact Epstein’s victims.
This is because the Epstein Files were indexed and cached by Google, which, at the time, included the victims’ leaked PII.
Searches including their names and keywords like “Epstein,” “victim,” or “survivor” returned full names, contact information, cities of residence, and their association with Epstein when using Google’s AI Mode.
When prompted, Google’s AI Mode would supposedly synthesize victims’ personal information based on unredacted documents found on sites like Jmail, a project built to help users understand the Epstein Files.
“As a part of this response, generated repeatedly on multiple platforms and across various devices, Google’s AI Mode included the victim’s full name, displayed her full email address, and generated a hypertext link allowing anyone to send a direct email to the victim with the click of a button,” the lawsuit reads.
At the time of submission, Google was still showing victims’ PII in search results, cached pages, and archived materials, the lawsuit claims.
What Google is supposedly doing is the equivalent of “doxxing” in the lawyer’s eyes.
Each victim is demanding no less than $1,000, together with attorney fees and other costs.
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