In another significant Internet law case, a B.C. woman’s class action lawsuit against Facebook seeks damages for violating Canadians’ privacy in online advertising. Facebook argues people consent to use of their name and image when they sign up, and the global giant disputes that Canadian courts have jurisdiction over these questions.
this point, we’ve seen plenty of class-action lawsuits over internet giants pawing through our email to either snoop on us or target us with advertising. For example, Google got sued in 2014 for scanning millions of students’ emails to build up profiles of users’ interests so it could target advertising at them. The search giant was then hit again a few weeks ago over scanning email, …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday it had sued 1-800 Contacts, which it called the largest U.S. online retailer of contact lenses, alleging the company illegally maintained anti-competitive agreements with rival online contact lens sellers. These agreements “suppress competition in certain online search advertising auctions and … restrict truthful and non-misleading internet …
As the Justice Department probes Comcast’s practices in the spot advertising market, the media giant is now facing an antitrust lawsuit that alleges monopolization of ad markets and the exclusionary treatment of one independent cable representation firm. On Monday, Viamedia filed suit in Illinois with claims that Comcast has gained control of “interconnects” — local cooperatives serving pay-TV …
Quaker Oats is facing a new lawsuit over its false advertising claim that it is offering 100 percent natural oatmeal. Tests showed the presence of the herbicide glyphosate deemed as a human carcinogen. A class-action lawsuit was filed in Federal District Courts in New York and California, claiming …
Mark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, is facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age, race and gender at the newspaper. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, claims that under Thompson’s …
In a new class-action lawsuit, plaintiffs claim Facebook spied on users who relayed private health information on major cancer institutes’ websites in order to make profit off the data in advertising revenue. Courthouse News Service reports Winston Smith has sued Facebook, the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Oncology and five others alleging Facebook uses the private health …
News Corp has agreed to pay out a total of $280 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit brought by several major packaged goods brands that accused the company of using its monopoly position to over-charge clients for in-store promotional advertising. The case was first brought in 2012 (a year before the separation of …