Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones January 30, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones,...
Damages Upheld for Man Whose Ex-Girlfriend Shared Nude Photo Without Permission January 17, 2025 A Massachusetts man who sued his ex-girlfriend over her sharing an unflattering nude photo of him and accessing his personal...
Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data January 13, 2025 By Ezra Amacher The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through...
California Teen Suspected of Being a Member of Scattered Spider Hacking Gang December 4, 2024 By Margi Murphy An accused teenage hacker who was arrested last month in California is suspected of being a member of the notorious...
Zoom Offers $18 Million to Settle SEC Privacy Probe From 2020 December 2, 2024 By Brody Ford Zoom Communications Inc. has offered $18 million to settle a four-year-old US Securities and Exchange Commission probe related to its...
Meta Pushes Back Against FTC Effort to Toughen Privacy Order November 13, 2024 By Leah Nylen Meta Platforms Inc. rebuffed the Federal Trade Commission’s plans to modify a 2020 privacy settlement with the company, arguing that...
Top EU Privacy Regulator Opens Probe Into Google’s AI Compliance September 12, 2024 By Padraic Halpin The top EU privacy regulator opened an inquiry on Thursday into whether search engine giant Google adequately protected European Union...
Maine Regulators Reject Letting Utility Report Suspect Marijuana Growers to Police August 16, 2024 Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana...
TikTok Sued by US for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law August 5, 2024 By Leah Nylen TikTok was sued by the US for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three...
DOJ Drops Claims That TikTok Misled US Consumers in Lawsuit June 24, 2024 By Leah Nylen and Chris Strohm The US Justice Department is dropping one of two proposed claims against ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, planning to focus a consumer...