by: Wendy Davis | MediaPost

A federal judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit by consumers against 17 tech companies on the grounds that the consumers' written complaint -- which is supposed to outline their allegations and legal theories -- is too unwieldy for them to proceed.

"The court is not sure who these voluminous screeds are addressed to," U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin, Texas wrote in an order throwing out the 343-page complaint.