[NEWS] ARTICLE: As expected, Sidekick class-action lawsuits began to materialize

[phillynewsnow]

With any data outage (or technology problem, for that matter) that was as severe as the Sidekick/T-Mobile/Microsoft snafu was, I knew it would only be a matter of time before the class-action lawsuits came to life. Sure enough, two cases have officially entered the system: one in California and one in Washington. The interesting thing here is that they're going after T-Mobile and not Microsoft, the company that operates the servers in question. In both cases, the users claim that T-Mobile misled customers into thinking that the Sidekick platform was secure. As a result, the users suffered a "complete and catastrophic loss of all data" when the systems went down.

With Microsoft and T-Mobile now claiming that most data is able to be restored (and should return to the device in the coming days), I'm curious as to whether the class-action lawsuits will hold ground. Despite that, I have full faith in the American legal system, and I'm sure that someone will come up with a way to successfully sue them at some point.

Source: Engadget, The Inquirer











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[iamdasht19]

hahahah i also knew that this was going to come.... and the key words that they drop in here and during the speach is MOST of the data will be able to be restored to the devices. ...this means that some will not get it thus the lawsuite in some sort still happening.... they are going to definately feel the heat in one way or another for this server going down without having a backup present.... seriously no backup? what were you thinking t-mobile?