He told Joe Nocera, of the Times, that he hoped his action would help the less fortunate to pursue redress from big banks.
And given how confusing data-related issues can clearly be for consumers, not to mention how complex it can be for an individual to try to pursue redress over a data breach on their own, there's surely a pretty straightforward argument for letting independent organizations push for redress on behalf of consumers.
The Senate is preparing to debate and vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, an important bill that will help reduce the incentives for employers to knowingly underpay their employees and strengthen the ability of workers to pursue redress.
Pursuing legal redress is much more difficult, he said.
The Uber breach has also renewed calls for the government to rethink its approach to data redress by supporting a provision being added to the Data Protection Bill to allow independent bodies to pursue data redress on behalf of consumers.
Under the EU's incoming data protection framework GDPR, which will apply from May 25, there is a provision for consumer organizations to pursue collective redress on behalf of individual consumers.
Wisconsin is where, while everyone was busy over the weekend, Governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act which made it easier for victims of pay discrimination to pursue legal redress.
But that's about pursuing State Department aims, not redressing wrongs that contributed to the financial crisis.
Trevor Hicks, the president of the HFSG, both of whose teenage daughters, Sarah and Victoria, died in the Leppings Lane crush, said they will pursue all legal redress: "The truth is out today," Hicks said.
Statistical and thematic analysis will be used to present a patient perspective of their experiences in hospital; the characteristics of patients experiencing an adverse event; experiences of information sharing after an event (open disclosure) and the other avenues of redress pursued.
"We at Gannett are committed to pursuing all appropriate avenues of recourse in order to redress what we believe is a patently unjust, manifestly unfair and simply wrong-headed approach to sports news coverage," said a recent letter from USA Today president and publisher Thomas Curley to the NCAA.
