The Justice Department is suing Google to break up its ad business Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Alongside eight states, the US Department of Justice is suing Google to break up the company’s advertising business. In a complaint filed Tuesday with a federal court in Virginia, the agency accused Google of illegally monopolizing the digital advertising … Continue reading DOJ accuses Google of deleting chat evidence for its antitrust lawsuit
Google will pay $9.5 million to settle Washington DC AG’s location-tracking lawsuit Kris Holt @krisholt Google has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who accused the company earlier this year of “deceiving users and invading their privacy.” Google has also agreed to change … Continue reading Google will pay $9.5 million to settle Washington DC AG’s location-tracking lawsuit
Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica ‘exploited’ Facebook Richard Lawler @Rjcc Last night Facebook announced bans against Cambridge Analytica, its parent company and several individuals for allegedly sharing and keeping data that they had promised to delete. This data reportedly included information siphoned from hundreds of thousands of Amazon Mechanical Turkers who were paid to use … Continue reading Meta settles Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725 million
Meta Hit With New Privacy Lawsuit By Online Tax Filers by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, December 29, 2022 Meta Platforms was hit Thursday with a second lawsuit over allegations that it collects taxpayers’ information from online filing services. This new complaint, like one filed earlier this month, alleges that Meta’s tracking code, the Meta Pixel, was … Continue reading Meta Hit With New Privacy Lawsuit By Online Tax Filers
Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or lose their jobs NurPhoto via Getty Images Mariella Moon @mariella_moon Twitter might lose even more employees following the mass layoffs that halved its workforce and shortly after the company fired engineers who publicly called out its new owner. According to The Washington … Continue reading Former Twitter employees file class action gender discrimination lawsuit
Biden Admin Weighs In On Tech Companies’ Liability For Terror Attacks by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, December 7, 2022 Partially siding with social media companies, the Biden administration is urging the Supreme Court to rule that web platforms’ failure to remove material posted by terrorists doesn’t amount to aiding and abetting terrorism. But the administration also … Continue reading Biden Administration Sides With Tech Companies In Lawsuit Over ISIS Attack
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Google Of ‘Spying’ On Android Users by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, December 2, 2022 Google has again defeated a lawsuit brought by two Android users who accused the company of “spying” on them by collecting information about their use of outside companies’ apps. In a decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge … Continue reading Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Google Of ‘Spying’ On Android Users
Jon Fingas|@jonfingas Microsoft just made one of the largest-ever bids for a game studio. The company has announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, valuing the all-cash deal at an enormous $68.7 billion. The deal would make the combined entity the “third-largest” game company by revenue, according to Microsoft, and would … Continue reading The FTC might file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s Activision purchase
By Sam Becker October 19, 2022 A former Planned Parenthood official is suing the organization, saying that she was fired for making complaints about workplace discrimination related to her race, according to a 51-page brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday. … Continue reading Planned Parenthood accused of race discrimination and retaliation in lawsuit by former employee
Apple Pay illegally profited by walling off contactless payments, lawsuit alleges Iowa’s Affinity Credit Union, the plaintiff, is accusing Apple of anti-competitive behavior. A. Khalid @askhalid Dado Ruvic / reuters A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of payment card issuers accuses Apple of illegally profiting from Apple Pay and breaking antitrust laws. … Continue reading Apple Pay illegally profited by walling off contactless payments, lawsuit alleges
