Publishers Clearing House class action overview:
- Who: Publishers Clearing House is facing a class action lawsuit related to its sale of personal information of others.
- Why: The company is accused of selling names, addresses and purchasing information, along with demographic information such as age.
- Where: The Publishers Clearing House lawsuit was filed in federal court in Utah.
Publishers Clearing House is facing a class action lawsuit related to its sale of names, addresses and purchasing information along with demographic information such as age of those on its mailing list.
The company is accused of being paid to sell detailed information of purchases and prices. The lead plaintiff, James Camoras, says the company sold information about his purchase of a tripod and book to data aggregators, data appenders, data cooperatives, and list brokers, political organizations and non-profit companies and then he was inundated with junk mail.
“Prior to and at the time plaintiff made his purchases, PCH did not notify plaintiff that it discloses the private purchase information of its customers, and plaintiff has never authorized PCH to do so,” the Publishers Clearing House lawsuit says. “Furthermore, plaintiff was never provided any written notice that PCH rents, sells, or otherwise discloses for compensation its customers’ private purchase information, or any means of opting out.”
Class includes Utah residents who had information sold since start of 2004
The class is proposed to be any Utah residents who had class their purchase information sold on or after January 1, 2004 after making a purchase and then had Publishers Clearing House sell that purchase information to a third party.
The sale would be a violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act, the Publishers Clearing House class action lawsuit claims.
Publishers Clearing House sells and rents mailing lists containing subscribers’ personal information to a variety of third parties, including data miners and list brokers, multiple class action lawsuits allege.
Do you believe that Publishers Clearing House has sold your personal information to other companies? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Frank S. Hedin and Arun G. Ravindran of Hedin Hall LLP and David W. Scofield of Peters Scofield.
The Publishers Clearing House class action lawsuit is Camoras v. Publishers Clearing House LLC, Case No. 4:23-cv-00118-DN, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
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60 thoughts onPublishers Clearing House class action alleges company shares purchaser info
I have been scammed.late 2024.II had reported a formal complaint to publishers clearing house.
You can tell PCH not to sell your information, however, in keeping with their deceptive practices, they will trick you into opening ads by showing you a skip ad button between games and when you touch it, you open an ad that hasn’t yet appeared in that same spot! They get credit for a hit on the ad and the advertiser now has a lead to pursue you with. The other method is the jumping screen. When you attempt to advance to the next game, the screen will jump as multiple ads load and where you just touched becomes an ad that you never intended to open! Since PCH no longer sells products, their only source of income is the collection and sale of contestant information. Data mining from poor Americans hoping to win something for once in their life is sinister and likely very illegal!
2025 we are still waiting to see what is happening with this case. Many of us have been customers for many years Of course Add me