A US federal jury in Los Angeles on 25 March 2026 found Meta and Google liable in a closely watched trial accusing social media platforms of designing their products to get young users addicted, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in damages. Meta was ordered to pay 70% of the awarded compensatory damages, while Google is responsible for the rest. The verdict came after nine days, roughly 43 hours, of deliberations. The jury is expected to decide on punitive damages. "For years, social media c
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It looks like Google is opening its wallet again. The tech giant has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed it was secretly collecting data from children. This case focused on how the tech giant handled the personal details of kids under the age of 13 who used apps from the Google Play Store.
Why the Lawsuit Was Filed - The legal trouble centered on a program called “Designed for Families” (DFF). This was supposed to be a safe space where parents could find
If you used the investing app Robinhood, you could qualify for part of a $20 million class action settlement resolving allegations that the investment app's negligence led to personal information being leaked. Robinhood's cybersecurity system "lacks simple and almost universal security measures used by other broker-dealer online systems, such as verifying changes in bank account links," according to a February 2021 complaint.
If your Robinhood account was accessed by unauthorized users between
Back in 1975, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow wrote and sang a song, I Write the Songs. Forty-eight years later, Barry might be out of a job with AI now writing songs. Universal Music https://www.universalmusic.com sued AI startup Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing in a Tennessee federal court in October 2023. One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyr
A multistate lawsuit against software company Blackbaud has been settled, according to the North Carolina Attorney General’s office. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein recently announced the $49.5 million settlement with Blackbaud. Multiple states had brought a suit against the software company for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 ransomware attack that exposed the personal information of millions of people across the country. Why is this Important?
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Wellington Whimpy used to say, “I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” The manager of a State of Illinois White Castle restaurant is seeking enforcement of the state's biometric data privacy law on behalf of all the chain's employees for what she claims is a decade of violations. The proposed class-action lawsuit against the fast-food chain, known for its hamburgers, alleges that fingerprint scans used to access restaurant computer systems violate the State of Illinois Biometric Inf
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general said on Thursday they had opened an investigation into Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, for promoting its social media app Instagram while knowing of mental and emotional harms caused by Instagram.
As of now, 11 US states are involved in the investigation, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia. The Massachuset
