25 posts tagged ‘Lawsuit’
Apple Settles Siri Spying Lawsuit
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Adi Robertson (Hacker News): Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It […]
Utah AG Accuses TikTok of Knowing Minors Were Being Groomed on ‘Live’
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The lawsuit also alleges TikTok Live facilitated money laundering, drugs sales, and terrorism.
Apple to Defend Google Revenue Sharing Agreement
Jody Godoy (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser.[…]Apple received an estimated $20 billion […]
WhatsApp v. NSO Group
Reuters (via Hacker News, Court Listener): U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms’, WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorized surveillance.[…]WhatsApp in 2019 sued NSO seeking an injunction and damages, accusing it of accessing WhatsApp servers without […]
Apple Sued for Not Searching iCloud for CSAM
Ashley Belanger: Thousands of victims have sued Apple over its alleged failure to detect and report illegal child pornography, also known as child sex abuse materials (CSAM).The proposed class action comes after Apple scrapped a controversial CSAM-scanning tool last fall that was supposed to significantly reduce CSAM spreading in its products. Apple defended its decision […]
UK App Store Commission Lawsuit
Tim Hardwick: Led by competition policy professor Sean Ennis, the suit alleges Apple’s 15-30% commission on App Store sales creates an anti-competitive tax on the UK technology industry. The lawsuit seeks £785 million ($995 million) in damages on behalf of UK app developers. The case could potentially benefit up to 13,000 developers who have sold […]
Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors
Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the article. Something similar is now happening in India, where the Indian […]
The State of Mozilla
Bryan Lunduke (via Hacker News): The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)While the Mozilla revenue dropsAnd the Firefox Marketshare […]