February 12, 2019

Apple sued for ‘forcing’ 2FA on accounts

Time is money, baby: Jay Brodsky claims that Apple's 2FA "intermeddling" takes minutes out of his day, causing "economic loss."

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January 10, 2019

Supreme Court refuses to hear Fiat Chrysler appeal in Jeep hacking case

The court's action means that one of the first legal cases involving cyber security risks in cars will go to trial in October.

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October 25, 2018

Google and Facebook accused of secretly tracking users’ locations

Google and Facebook have been hit separately by class action lawsuits accusing them of secretly tracking user locations.

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June 04, 2018

Facebook faces furious shareholders at annual meeting

They accused execs of human rights violations, compared Zuckerberg to Vladimir Putin, and challenged his "corporate dictatorship."

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October 31, 2017

Equifax is facing a towering pile of class action law suits

More than 70 different class action suits are in the works

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April 24, 2017

Top secret messages sent via Confide might not be so secret after all

Confide, an app used by some Washington insiders, denies claims in lawsuit that it doesn't prevent screenshots on all platforms

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September 20, 2016

Maker of smart vibrator sued for snooping on customers’ use

We probably don't want strangers to know whether we prefer the settings pulse, wave, echo, peak and/or "cha cha cha." Whatever those are.

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May 06, 2016

Facebook loses first round in facial recognition class action suit

Users never gave consent to have their faces gobbled up, and Facebook never told them what it would do with the biometrics, the suit claims.

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January 14, 2016

Yahoo settles class action suit over scanning email for ad targeting

The upshot: Yahoo's going to keep scanning email, but it's tweaking the timing so that it scans only after the email has reached an inbox or outbox.

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