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A multi-billion pound British class action lawsuit has been filed against the tech giant Google in the UK Supreme Court. The lawsuit alleges that Google secretly tracked countless iPhone users’ internet activities. SEE: Google collects Android location data even if location service is off The consumer rights group, which?’s former director, Richard Lloyd, leads the […]
We have seen numerous examples of how legal tools are used by people to achieve their goals. US-based lawyer Paul Hansmeier was one such person who tried to use his knowledge to earn some hard cash, but in the wrong way. A couple of years back, Hansmeier and his partner in crime John Steele were […]
With new security issues cropping up each day, people are looking for ways to make their smartphones more secure. However, one man doesn’t seem to like the development and has, in turn, sued Apple for attempting to keep its smartphones safe. According to a report by MacRumors, Jay Brodsky, who lives in New York, has […]
The Russian government agency, which controls Internet censorship in the country, has opened administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter because for failing to comply with local data laws. The action was taken citing that the law requires all servers, that store personal data of Russians, to be located in Russia. Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Monday that […]
A class action lawsuit has been filed by Dave Cooper, a freelance videographer, against Adobe for a bug in its video-editing software Premiere Pro that deleted years of his work within no time. Cooper software watched in horror as his important videos and clips got permanently deleted. In the lawsuit, Cooper has alleged that the […]
The electric car manufacturing giant, Tesla, has filed a lawsuit against a former employee Martin Tripp (“Tripp”) accusing him of hacking into the company’s servers, stealing sensitive data and sharing it with third-parties. The stolen data included dozens of photos and a video of Tesla’s manufacturing systems. The company claims in the lawsuit that due to […]
A 74-year old rancher in Texas discovered a small portal surveillance camera installed on his property in the south of Encinal, Texas, while he was walking around the ranch with his attorney. Reportedly, Ricardo Palacios identified the camera installed on a tree in November 2017 and believed that it was installed by the border agents, […]
Los Angeles natives Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, represented by Wilshire Law Firm, this firm honed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California challenging Apple of slowing down their older iPhone designs when new models come out. Defendant breached the mentioned contracts it made with Plaintiffs and Class Members […]
In September, the US administration gave federal bureaus three months to eliminate Kaspersky’s security software, citing matters of espionage. It cited “the ties among certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government bureaus, and conditions under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence powers to request or compel support from Kaspersky and to intercept messages […]
We always need to be alert while sending out emails especially when sending the same email using the Carbon Copy (Cc) option on your email account’s address bar. If you accidentally send out Cc emails, you must be prepared for shocking outcomes. The news that we are going to share with you explains the dangers […]
Short Bytes: The families related to the victims in the Orlando Pulse shooting case have filed a lawsuit against Google, Facebook, and Twitter on the grounds they have a contribution towards spreading the reach of terror organizations like ISIS. It was six months ago when some maniac committed a horrible human massacre at a nightclub […]
Short Bytes: Mozilla along with Apple, Lithium, and Twilio has filed an amicus brief to support Redmond in the “Microsoft Crop v United States Department of Justice et al” lawsuit. Microsoft says that the gagging orders issued by the courts are violating the Fourth Amendment. Another tech name has come up in support of Microsoft which has been […]
Ever think a social networking site that is currently counted among the world’s top three social media platforms would steep so low just to boost Likes or for other marketing purposes? According to reports, Facebook historically scanned private text messages of its users for identifying links to websites and treated them as Likes. We do know that […]
Short Bytes: Very often governments ask the tech companies to provide the personal information of their customers and force them to remain silent. Taking a stand against the DOJ in a similar matter, Microsoft has sued the U.S. government over its unconstitutional practices of secret data requests. Microsoft has taken a stand against the way […]
Image: Wtamu.edu Short Bytes: A report published by Mathew Sag claims that the number of people sued for illegal file sharing in the US has decreased by 84% since the year 2010. The report includes statistics from the year 1994 till 2015, featuring numerical data for trademark, patent and copyright lawsuits filed in the 20-year […]
In June this year, we reported how Facebook was sued by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC) for tracking users even those who never made a profile on the social media site. Now, Frederic Debussere (representative of the Belgian Privacy Commission/BPC) in his opening arguments on Monday, referred to Edward Snowden, the famous NSA whistleblower, while revealing the […]
Father of Vulnerable Minor Daughter exposed to Sexual Predators on Facebook gets paid an Undisclosed Amount. Facebook was forced to enforce its age restriction policy by a father who claims that his daughter got exposed to online sexual predators on this site at the tender age of 11. Facebook has also managed to settle a […]
The social network’s face-recognition software has been sued again and to add salt to their wounds, privacy groups also have issued warnings. It does sound hilarious and somewhat exaggerated, but it is true that a class-action lawsuit has been filed by Illinois residents against Facebook Inc., for the fourth time this year. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/facebook-algorithm-user-pictures/”]Facebook Algorithm […]
Facebook is back in the news, this time again for violating its users’ privacy by gathering a huge mass of facial data. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the social media giant last week and it is claimed that the Facebook’s data-collection program titled automatic face-tagging feature has helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash […]
In past, Apple has faced many lawful problems and now it has been kicked into a new one by Motorola as Motorola has won a certain preliminary injunction against some of the Apple products. It’s not the first time when Motorola has caused a problem for Apple. The injunction has practically affected devices with GPRS […]