Comcast Suit Claims Privacy Violations

Comcast Corp., the nation's third-largest cable company, is being sued in U.S. District Court in Michigan over accusations it violated a federal privacy law when it recorded the Web browsing activities of each of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers.

The suit filed by attorney Steven Goren of Bingham Farms, Mich., seeks damages of at least $100 a day for every Comcast subscriber during the period from December 2001 to Feb. 13, 2002, when Comcast pledged to stop the practice. A Comcast spokesman did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Comcast previously has denied wrongdoing. It said no more information was recorded about Comcast customers than is common in the industry and no more than was needed to optimize its Internet network.