40 posts tagged ‘Legal’
Apple INA Hiring Discrimination Settlement
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Jon Brodkin (Hacker News, 9to5Mac, ): Apple illegally discriminated against US citizens and other US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for certain types of positions that went to foreign workers, the US Department of Justice said yesterday. Apple agreed to pay up to $25 million in back pay and civil penalties to settle […]
Apple’s Trademark Exploit
GiovanH (via Hacker News): Apple puts its logo on the devices it sells: not just the outer casing, but also each internal component. The vast majority of these logos are totally enclosed and invisible to the naked eye. This seems like a strange practice — especially since Apple doesn’t sell these parts separately — except […]
Apple’s Three Safaris
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
FTX Trial
Molly White (via Nick Heer): We got our first glance at the FTX codebase on Friday. The prosecution brought out Github screenshots as they questioned cooperating witness Gary Wang, the former CTO of FTX who at various times was responsible for the codebases powering both FTX and Alameda Research. Wang has pleaded guilty to four […]
Masimo v. Apple
Brian Merchant: Kiani, an electrical engineer by training, had founded the Irvine company Masimo in 1989. Over the next three decades, he and his colleagues built Masimo into an industry leader in pulse oximetry, used to take readings of the amount of oxygen in a person’s blood — a crucial, sometimes life-saving, measurement.[…]Kiani and the […]
Cue Testimony in US v. Google
David Pierce (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negotiating its current iteration with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2016. […]
FCC Plans to Reinstate Network Neutrality
Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information, five years after they were repealed by then-president Donald Trump in 2018.Previous net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 classified broadband service under public utility rules […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]