Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Sidekick Data Loss

An Atlanta woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile over the Microsoft server outage that caused thousands of Sidekick smartphone users to lose their personal data. The lawsuit, brought by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson, alleges T-Mobile, Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiary Danger failed to make good on their marketing promises that the Sidekick data service would securely and automatically back up users' data.