Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) Suing technology firms when they mess up is already hard, especially over privacy violations. Now, Facebook, Google, and the trade groups representing all the big tech firms are asking the Supreme Court to make it even harder for class actions to pursue cases against them. Facebook, Google, and […]
Enlarge / You see Facebook, Facebook sees you… (credit: Chris Jackson | Getty Images) Millions of Facebook users in Illinois will be receiving about $340 each as Facebook settles a case alleging it broke state law when it collected facial recognition data on users without their consent. The judge hearing the case in federal court […]
Enlarge / Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo displayed during the 4th edition of the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 17, 2019, in Paris, France. (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images) Amazon on Tuesday brought receipts in its response to seemingly defunct social networking platform Parler’s lawsuit against it, detailing […]
Enlarge / Sidney Powell, flanked by Rudy Giuliani, at a press conference on Nov. 19, three days before the Trump campaign publicly cut ties with her. (credit: Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images) Dominion Voting Systems has filed a suit against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that her widespread, unfounded […]
Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. (credit: Kristin Lee | Getty Images) Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it, as a judge ruled […]
Enlarge (credit: Tom Raftery | Flickr) The former owner of a computer repair shop in Delaware is suing Twitter for defamation, alleging that the platform’s choice to moderate a New York Post story that cited him as a source is tantamount to labeling him personally a “hacker.” Twitter’s “actions and statements had the specific intent […]
Enlarge / People are complaining about situations like this in Cyberpunk 2077. (credit: CDPR / Twitter) On its release day, Cyberpunk 2077 immediately pivoted from one of the holiday season’s most hotly anticipated new games to one of this year’s biggest debacles, as bugs both comical and game-breaking proved to be so prolific on consoles […]
Expand / Signage Before a building in the Google campus in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (charge: David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Over three dozen state attorneys general a week filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the technology behemoth of a ton of anticompetitive behaviours. One of those […]
Two individual coalitions of nations have registered enormous antitrust lawsuits against Google within the previous 24 hours, even alleging the organization abuses its extensive capability to induce would-be competitors from the market and injuries customers in the procedure. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spearheaded the initial lawsuit, which nine additional nations also signed on. The […]
Expand / The suit stated that Pinterest does really have a darker aspect. (charge: Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images) A team of shareholders would be suing Pinterest and its own board of directors, said the firm violated its fiduciary responsibility, wasted corporate resources, and mistreated its management by boosting a systematic culture of […]