Facebook users can proceed with a class-action accusing the company of violating their privacy by scanning messages that users send to each other on the company’s platform, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton in the Northern District of California also ruled that the users can’t seek monetary damages on a class-wide basis, because assessing damages requires …
Facebook is in trouble again. The social network may have violated federal privacy laws by scanning private messages without user consent. A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Northern California District Court, over allegations that the company systematically scans its users’ private messages for links.
Even if Facebook is banned in China, the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg won a trademark lawsuit in the Asian giant. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that in April, the Beijing Higher People’s Court …
A $5 million lawsuit was filed against singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor in relation to the death of musician, Prince. The lawsuit comes after the Irish singer alleged Arsenio Hall of providing drugs to the late singer on a social media post. Comedian Arsenio Hall filed a defamation lawsuit against Sinead O’Connor last Thursday following the singer’s Facebook post wherein she alleged that …
Stop that tag! A judge ruled last week that a US class-action lawsuit arguing that Facebook’s use of its facial recognition tech violates Illinois law will go ahead, despite the company’s attempts to dismiss it. People upload millions of photos to Facebook every day.
A federal judge has ruled that even though a putative class-action suit against Facebook – which alleges the company lifted users’ biometric information without permission – was moved from Illinois federal court to California federal jurisdiction, Illinois law regarding privacy will apply in the case. The decision was delivered May 5 by California Federal Judge James Donato, who struck down …
An area resident and American Atheists have filed a lawsuit alleging that Bradley County Sheriff Eric Watson is violating the First Amendment by proselytizing and censoring on the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Officials filed the suit Monday in federal District Court in Eastern Tennessee in an effort to “stop the sheriff’s policy of censoring comments that are negative or at …
ESPN and Verizon have resolved a legal battle that began when the popular sports network sued the FiOS provider over its unconventional “Custom TV” channel packages last year. Verizon announced more flexible (and slimmer) programming bundles last April that gave customers the choice of keeping or excluding ESPN from their main subscription. ESPN cried foul, claiming that Verizon’s new approach …
It’s well-known that Facebook uses an algorithm that can recognise a person based on information in photographs. It’s a little creepy, sure, but is it illegal? Earlier this week, a court ruled against Facebook in a lawsuit that alleged the company unlawfully collected biometric data pertaining to faces in photos without users’ consent, according to CNET.
A San Francisco federal judge rejected Facebook’s request to toss a lawsuit alleging its photo-tagging feature that uses facial recognition technology invades users’ privacy. U.S. District Judge James Donato …