Class-Action Lawsuits For Clear, And It's About Time

July 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

To think that we've had to wait a full two weeks for lawsuits to be filed against defunct security pass Clear. It seems like forever ago, though only it was June 22, that Clear abruptly shut down it's expedited airport security lanes, website, and finances from over 200,000 customers each paying $200 a year for the rights to exactly those things.

Although we smelled trouble on the horizon and did not renew our membership in May, others weren't so lucky and are now out both the money and the knowledge that their iris and fingerprint scans are safe. Thus, sue to get it all back.

The first lawsuit, filed on June 25 in New York State�s Supreme Court by member Robert Harwood, asks the court "to force the company to give pro-rated refunds to him and the estimated 165,000 other Clear cardholders," in addition to returning Clear users' biometric data. Right now that data is up for sale to other eligible security pass companies.

More recently, class-action suits were filed, on behalf of all jilted Clear members, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Verified Identity Pass Inc. In this case, the main issue is not with the future of the customer data, but with the fact that Clear continued to market and sell memberships up until the last minute and now refuses to refund, making them guilty of fraud, breach of contract and negligence.

If you'd like to join in the lawsuit love, FederalComputerWeek has details on the law offices involved. Good luck; our iris scans are somewhere out there too, you know.

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