Tag: Lawsuits

Report: Google Sued Again Over Google Buzz Privacy
MediaPost is reporting that three Gmail users filed a lawsuit against Go...
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Amazon’s Appstore Name Is Not False Advertising Says Judge in Ruling Against Apple
As Amazon planned to launch their own Appstore for Android, Apple decided that the name "Appstore" was too similar to their own App Store - and therefore a lawsuit was in order. A...
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Delta Sued Over Noncompliance with California Privacy Law
The state of California has filed the first lawsuit as a result of their new app privacy initiative, and the target is Delta airlines. Attorney General Kamala Harris announced...
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Facebook’s Sponsored Stories Lawsuit Is in Its Penultimate Hour
A couple of weeks ago, we told you that Facebook's long-running Sponsored Stories lawsuit was...
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Court Orders Yahoo To Pay $2.7 Billion
Yahoo has been ordered by a Mexican court to pay $2.7 billion in a suit brought by Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas, who allege that Yahoo has breached contract related...
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Does Google the Link Lister Equal Google the Publisher?
Is Google a publisher? Or is Google simply a displayer of links? Are these two things the same? Those questions are at the heart of a Australian case that just tipped against G...
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Shareholders Sue Everyone Over HP/Autonomy Deal
When HP announced last week that it was taking an...
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Facebook Must Remove Page Outing Sex Offenders, Says UK Judge
According to a UK High Court, Facebook is not allowed to host a page that publicly outs convicted sex offenders. A Judge has given Facebook 72 hours to remove a page called...
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#Unbonjuif: French Group Wants Twitter to Give Up Identities of Anti-Semitic Users
A French anti-discrimination group is holding Twitter's feet to the fire, demanding that the social media site reveal the identities of a handful of users who posted anti-Semitic t...
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It’s Your First Amendment Right to Record Cops [Supreme Court]
In a victory for the ACLU and First Amendment activists everywhere, the United States Supreme Court has denied a request to review a decision that blocks the enforcement of an Illi...
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The Oatmeal Is Being Sued by a Greeting Card Company
Apparently, people refuse to leave Matthew Inman alone and just let him continue to be one of the funniest people on the internet. The creator of...
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Color Lawsuit Confirms Sale to Apple
Details about Color Labs' sale to Apple have emerged in a lawsuit b...
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Facebook’s Sponsored Stories Lawsuit May Be Coming to a Close
Facebook may finally be able to close the books on a long-running lawsuit that saw the company accused of major privacy violations corresponding to their Sponsored Stories initiati...
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Internet Deemed a Human Right in Another Sex Offender/Internet Ban Case
There are those out there who believe that banning a criminal, no matter how serious the crime, from access to the internet is unconstitutional and borderline inhumane. That's bec...
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Yelp Sued Over “Best Of” City Recommendations
If you're a Yelp user, you're probably familiar with their "Best of" feature that appears at the top of city pages. For instance, visiting Yelp's Denver page gives users a best of...
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