Sinead O’Connor is facing a $US5 million ($6 million) lawsuit after she alleged Prince had received drugs from a US talkshow host “over the decades” a week after the singer died from what is suspected to …
Sorry, Facebook: that class action lawsuit over violating privacy rights with your facial recognition technology isn’t going away anytime soon. A San Francisco federal judge on Thursday refused Facebook’s request to toss the lawsuit, letting the case move forward. The lawsuit was filed by some Illinois residents under Illinois law, but the parties agreed to transfer the case to the California …
A Facebook (FB – Get Report) shareholder filed a proposal for a class action lawsuit on Friday in an attempt to halt the social media company’s plan to issue new Class C stock, Reuters reports. The shareholder says the deal is unfair and designed to establish CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the company’s controlling shareholder. The lawsuit was filed on the Delaware Court of …
A Facebook Inc shareholder has filed a proposed class action lawsuit in a bid to stop the company’s plan to issue new Class C stock, calling the move an unfair deal to entrench chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as controlling shareholder. The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, comes two days after the social networking company announced its plan to issue the shares. The rejiggering …
Imagine suddenly being bombarded by unsolicited text messages from the social network Facebook. Now imagine this happening despite the fact that you’re not a member of said network and have no interest in becoming one. That’s the predicament Christine Holt of Washington, D.C., says she found herself in last month when she obtained a new cell phone number from MetroPCS.
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 …
An attorney representing Facebook users on Wednesday asked a federal judge to certify a class action against the social network over what he called its “continued systematic harvesting of private message content.” Class attorney Michael Sobol said during Wednesday’s hearing that “extensive and rather contentious and hard-fought discovery” has led plaintiffs to believe that Facebook’s source …
In this Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed at a Facebook announcement in New York. The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal in a case which pits a British Columbia woman against social media giant Facebook. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Craig RuttleIn this Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed at a Facebook announcement in New York.
Eat fresh? More like eat lies. Subway, everyone’s favorite purveyor of cheap, overcompensating sandwiches, promised this week to finally give customers every single inch of food they’ve long been promised.
Subway is making a major change to its sandwiches, all because of a photo that an Australian teen posted to the company’s Facebook page years ago. The photo was posted by Matt Corby. It showed a Subway footlong sub next to a tape measure that indicated the sandwich was only 11 inches long and the caption “Subway pls respond.”