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A class action suit claims Intel knowingly sold billions of faulty chips for years. The outcome could help define where poor vulnerability remediation becomes outright negligence.
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Google has been ordered by a court in the U.S. state of California to pay $314 million over charges that it misused Android device users' cellular data when they were idle to passively send information to the company. The verdict marks an end to a legal class-action complaint that was originally filed in August 2019. In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that Google's Android operating system
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The proposed settlement would amount to roughly $20 per Apple product that has Siri enabled, for each plaintiff.
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Meta has maintained that Facebook did not mislead investors by not including mention of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in its forward-looking risk disclosures, but the plaintiffs say it was a glaring omission.
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Airline violates privacy protections of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, plaintiff says, seeking a $210 million fine.
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Pressure mounts on the NSO Group's business viability as Khashoggi widow joins group of plaintiffs suing the Israeli firm for Pegasus spyware abuse.
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The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violated a New Jersey privacy law that provides for hefty fines against data brokers that publish personal information on state law enforcement officials. In the face of repeated stonewalling and prevarication by attorneys for Radaris, the judge in the case ordered that radaris.com and more than a dozen other data broker domains be transferred to the plaintiffs.
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Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp scored a major legal victory in its fight against Israeli commercial spyware vendor NSO Group after a federal judge in the U.S. state of California ruled in favor of the messaging giant for exploiting a security vulnerability to deliver Pegasus. "The limited evidentiary record before the court does show that defendants' Pegasus code was sent through plaintiffs'
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Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in June 2020 that alleged that the company misled users by tracking their surfing activity who thought that their internet use remained private when using the “incognito” or “private” mode on web browsers. The class-action lawsuit sought at least $5 billion in damages. The settlement terms were not disclosed. The plaintiffs had
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In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet's largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S. attorney to pay Google's legal fees.