Facebook Squelches ‘Friend Finder’ Class Action
Celebrities can cash in big time if a company uses their image without permission. But what happens if Facebook displays pictures of its use… Read more »
BlackBerry Hit With Lawsuits Over Outage, But Cases Look Weak
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Even since BlackBerry users lost service for three days in mid-October, many have speculated that Research In Motion will be smacked with a… Read more »
Card-Counting Robots? Lawsuit Against Full Tilt Poker Seeks $900 Million
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What do flower stores and pet shops have to do with mob-style gambling operations? Quite a bit, according to a new class action suit against… Read more »
Ticketmaster To Pay $10 To Fans It Redirected To Scalper Site
Fans who purchased resold tickets to Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and other shows are set to receive a payout under the terms of a new set… Read more »
Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User Profiles
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more »
Groupon Hit With New Lawsuit
September can’t end soon enough for Groupon. The month brought a string of staff departures, SEC spats and the indefinite shelving of the co… Read more »
Did Wal-Mart Throw A Lawsuit To Get Access To Netflix Customers?
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) recently surged into third place in the movie-download business, barely a year after buying the startup Vudu. Now, the… Read more »
Lawsuit Magnet Sirius XM Wins One Ruling, Loses Another
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings — though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about i… Read more »
Lawsuit Over Google WiFi Data Breach Will Move Ahead
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) apologized long ago for the accidental collection of personal WiFi data by its Street View cars, but the snafu continues… Read more »
Judge Approves $2.4 Million Quantcast Privacy Settlement
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So-called “Flash cookies” got some headlines in the online privacy world last year, after some prominent researchers noted that they were so… Read more »
Appeals Court: ‘Bundling’ Cable Service Is Not Illegal
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A lot of people don’t like “bundling”-the practice of selling consumers access to a big chunk of cable channels, rather than allowing “a la… Read more »
After Sony Data Breach, Lawsuits Flood The Courts
In the past year especially, there seem to be a spate of lawsuits following every privacy or security snafu that makes a few headlines. Cons… Read more »
Are Expiration Dates On Groupon Deals Illegal?
Groupon founder Andrew Mason was already sick of it a year ago, shortly after his fast-growing company first got sued over allegedly illegal… Read more »
Did Apple Overwork Its ‘Geniuses’? Lawsuit Moves Ahead
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I don’t usually report on employment lawsuits here, but when I hear allegations of oppressed Geniuses, I feel compelled to make an exception… Read more »
Is Netflix’s Practice Of Retaining Information About Ex-Customers Legit?
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If you quit Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and come back again, you’ll find it’s like coming back to an old friend-an old friend who knows a whole lot… Read more »
Class Action Lawsuit Against Classmates.com Won’t Fade Away
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United Online (NSDQ: UNTD) recently put its Classmates.com website out to pasture; it now redirects to MemoryLane. It will be harder to get… Read more »
Lawsuit Claims More Than Half Of Match.com Profiles Are Inactive Or Fake
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The online dating industry is now about 15 years old, but sites continue to be dogged by allegations that they’re bloated with fake or inact… Read more »
Interview: Scott Kamber On His ‘Spate’ Of Lawsuits Over Internet Privacy
The ad agency interclick took an unusual tactic in defending itself this week against recent lawsuits alleging the company and its customers… Read more »
Apple And App Makers Hit With Lawsuit Over Shared Consumer Info
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been slapped with a class action lawsuit that accuses the company and several prominent app makers of sharing users’… Read more »
