Diamond and Diamond Lawyers Launch $500M Class-action lawsuit against PornHub.com

• Thursday, 21 April 2022

Claim seeks damages on behalf of thousands of possible Canadians

TORONTO – Personal damage powerhouse, Diamond and Diamond, has filed a class-action lawsuit from MindGeek, the dad or mum business of pornography web-site PornHub.

The fit is led by Plaintiff Christine Wing, an Ontario resident, who promises that the website unsuccessful to adequately display sexual content uploaded to the pornhub.com area. In May 2020, with out her information or consent, a few intimate movies of Wing ended up uploaded to the web site.

“What does just one have when you have shed your privateness in the worst way?” claimed Wing. “This is a violation of the most egregious form.”

Wing is a single of 1000’s of Canadians who might have fallen target to sexual exploitation. Damages claimed by this proposed class are estimated to be up to $500 million excluding extra punitive or aggravated damages.

The course contains any or all persons in Canada who appeared in sexual articles disseminated by the defendants, such as intimate films or pictures. These kinds of content material might include sexual abuse materials, baby sexual abuse and all other non-consensual personal content. Numerous of these illustrations or photos and video clips may well however reside on the defendant’s area, inspite of recurring requests for said content’s removal.

“It is astonishing how little safeguards PornHub experienced from hurt,” reported Darryl Singer, Head of Professional and Civil litigation at Diamond and Diamond Attorneys. “We’re talking about a company developed on less than-age, non-consensual and pirated material.”

Diamond and Diamond’s course-motion follows further satisfies against the defendant across the world, which include a $600 million match by a Plaintiff known as Jane Doe. Doe claimed her sexual abuse as a child was posted to the internet site and that she was only alerted when she obtained a social media information from a high school mate.

Canadians that think their movies or images may possibly have been uploaded to Pornhub, with out their consent, are invited to speak to Diamond and Diamond Attorneys at 1-800-567-Damage.

For media relevant inquiries, you should contact: Jordan Whelan, [email protected], (647)-278-6494