Shopify Must Face Data Privacy Lawsuit in US April 22, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a proposed data privacy class action against Shopify, a decision that could make...
Meta Settles With Australia’s Privacy Watchdog Over Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit December 17, 2024 Meta Platforms has agreed to a A$50 million settlement ($31.85 million), Australia’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, closing long-drawn, expensive...
Google Agrees to Delete Web Browsing Data as it Settles ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit April 2, 2024 By Davey Alba Google said it would delete millions of records of users’ browsing activities as part of a settlement of a class-action...
Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit December 29, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who...
Arkansas City, County Included in Duggar Family Privacy Suits June 9, 2017 By Tafi Mukunyadzi Reality TV personality Josh Duggar faced “unwarranted public scrutiny” after a magazine disclosed that sisters told police they had been...
Gawker, Publisher to Pay $25M in Punitive Damages in Hulk Hogan Lawsuit March 22, 2016 A Florida jury awarded punitive damages totaling $25 million on Monday in a second blow to Gawker, coming on top...
Florida Jury Awards Hulk Hogan $115M in Sex Tape Lawsuit Against Media Company March 21, 2016 By Tamara Lush A jury in Florida awarded wrestling star Hulk Hogan an eye-popping $115 million on Friday in his sex tape lawsuit...
Judge Sets 2016 Trial Date for Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Lawsuit August 3, 2015 By Tamara Lush A Florida judge set a trial date of March 2016 for a lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan – the biggest...
Other Social Media Back Facebook in New York Privacy Case August 13, 2014 By Jennifer Peltz Facebook’s fight against prosecutors over nearly 400 search warrants for users’ postings and other data is drawing support from other...
Facebook User Data Sought by New York D.A. in Disability-Fraud Probe June 27, 2014 By Edvard Pettersson Facebook Inc. was ordered by a judge last year to turn over account information of 381 users who were investigated...