Lawsuit

Meta sees off another logo complaint from blockchain player Dfinity

What would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire?

Legal08 Feb 2023 | 7

Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps

You are the product

Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 47

Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health

Human Capital leaves the building

Off-Prem26 Jan 2023 | 20

Activision prevails as court tosses 'frat house' culture lawsuit

Investors use up all their continues, game over

Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 4

Tesla fails to push racial discrimination lawsuit into arbitration

Plaintiff was offered direct employment with an arbitration agreement, but never signed the letter

On-Prem05 Jan 2023 | 33

Google gets off easy in location tracking lawsuits

$29.5 million and we don't have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign?

Security03 Jan 2023 | 4

Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI

Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers

Systems29 Dec 2022 | 53

Video game players sue to frag Microsoft-Activision merger

Redmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking

Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 9

Washington DC drags Amazon to court for 'yoinking' driver tips

But we already gave them back $62m, web bazaar shrugs

Personal Tech07 Dec 2022 | 50

Iterable co-founder claims he was ousted because of racial discrimination, not LSD use

While Justin Zhu admits to micro-dosing, he alleges that his ethnicity was an issue for investors

Bootnotes29 Nov 2022 | 14

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard'

Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59

Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs

Doesn't matter what the data is, they thought they pushed the off switch, argues complaint

Legal14 Nov 2022 | 16

Experian, T-Mobile US settle data spills for mere $16m

Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen

Cyber-crime08 Nov 2022 | 4

Qualcomm: Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead

Analysis Snapdragon giant warns of dramatic shift in business model

Systems01 Nov 2022 | 59

Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore

But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not.

Legal01 Nov 2022 | 10

Ex-WSJ reporter says he was framed in elaborate 'hack-and-smear' operation

Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more

Security18 Oct 2022 | 12

French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change

Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook

Personal Tech07 Oct 2022 | 16

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori

Security06 Oct 2022 | 26

Google burns few hours of profit to disappear location privacy lawsuit

Phrasing, Arizona... AG claims deal is 'historic'

Personal Tech04 Oct 2022 | 16

Samsung sued for gobbling up too much personal info that miscreants then stole

If you're gonna force everyone to register an account, at least protect that data, lawsuit argues

Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 9

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8

Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking

Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers

AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 77

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta

Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31

Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 26

FTC presses ahead in its war on 'free' Turbo Tax

Updated US watchdog snubs Intuit's request to drop claims of bait-and-switch tactics

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 15

Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data

Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016

Legal23 Aug 2022 | 29

Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents

Patent lawsuits, the next saga

Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 33

Apple sued by French media over App Store power

Gros fromages take on big Pomme

Applications02 Aug 2022 | 19

Court OKs billion-dollar Play Store gouging suit against Google

Just as web giant accepts third-party payment platforms, reduces fees in the EU

Personal Tech20 Jul 2022 | 7

Apple to pay $50m settlement for rotten butterfly keyboards

Diehards who replaced their keyboards can get up to $395 repeatedly

Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 28

Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit

If this sounds familiar, it's because the EU is investigating the same thing

Legal19 Jul 2022 | 7

Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store

US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000

Legal01 Jul 2022 | 9

Tesla lawsuit alleges unlawful layoffs at Nevada gigafactory

It's the second time a Musk-owned company has been accused of WARN Act violations

Legal21 Jun 2022 | 15

Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams

Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines

Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 13

I was fired for blowing the whistle on cult's status in Google unit, says contractor

The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley

Bootnotes16 Jun 2022 | 40

Google offers $118m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

Don't even think about putting LaMDA on the compensation committee

Legal13 Jun 2022 | 8

Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man

Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death

Offbeat09 Jun 2022 | 40

IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC

Big Blue's 'routine eschewal of rules' justifies large penalty, judge says

Systems31 May 2022 | 33

TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people

Might be a $30 check for you if you were screwed over by 'free, free, free' ads

Applications04 May 2022 | 26

Intuit sued over alleged cryptocurrency thefts via Mailchimp intrusion

Financial software giant slammed for 'poor security practices'

Cyber-crime25 Apr 2022 | 13

IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case

Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires

Legal14 Apr 2022 | 26

Mandiant shareholder sues to block $5.4b Google deal

Investors given 'materially incomplete and misleading' info, it is claimed

Security04 Apr 2022 | 3

UK suit over reselling surplus Microsoft licenses rolls on

In the meantime, Windows giant eliminates 'challenged restriction'

Legal01 Apr 2022 | 45

IBM files IP lawsuit against mainframe migration firm

Claims shell company formed to license mainframe products for reverse engineering

Legal22 Mar 2022 | 12

Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits

It's Deere hunting season in Illinois and Alabama

Software25 Jan 2022 | 80

EthereumMax, a Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr sued over alleged 'pump and dump' cryptocurrency scam

Angry punter wants his money back

Personal Tech13 Jan 2022 | 55

Lawsuit accusing Robinhood and Citadel Securities of colluding to stop GameStop shares from skyrocketing thrown out by judge

There's not enough evidence, judge ruled

Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 | 40

Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars

Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant

Legal28 Sep 2021 | 128

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

When is a contract not a contract? When it's an incentive plan letter

PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2021 | 45

Blue Origin sues NASA for awarding SpaceX $3bn contract to land next American boots on the Moon

Updated In Jeff's world, it's not 'you snooze, you lose', it's 'you lose, you sues'

Science16 Aug 2021 | 54

Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement?

Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs

Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 15

Ah, right on time: Hacker-slammed SolarWinds sued by angry shareholders

Plus: US intelligence names and shames Russia as probable culprit

Security05 Jan 2021 | 27

Apple rummages through pockets, hands out $113m in change to US states to make iPhone slowdown row go away

Arizona-led fight over battery-gate ends in settlement

Personal Tech18 Nov 2020 | 12

Zoom-er or later, your past catches up with you: Vid chat service hit by sueball over end-to-end encryption claim

US consumer nonprofit alleges it was false advertising

SaaS12 Aug 2020 | 5

Amazon warehouse workers sue over safety concerns as several contract COVID-19

One employee went on to infect her cousin, who later died

Legal04 Jun 2020 | 15

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint

Storage29 May 2020 | 71