In what is being considered the largest-ever settlement of alleged violations of Michigan’s privacy law (the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act), the publisher of Reader’s Digest has agreed to pay out $8.2 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by consumers who allege that the publisher sold subscribers’ personal information to data brokers

Reader’s Digest, owned by Trusted Media, was hit with a class action in New York federal court alleging that the magazine sells its subscribers’ personal information, including names, addresses, and demographic information, to data miners without any consent, in violation of the Michigan’s Preservation of Personal Privacy Act. Class representative, Shannon Taylor (Taylor), claims that