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News, Settlements May 3, 2019

Canadian Class Action Claimants Get $20 Million After Obituary Website Uses Unauthorized Notices and Images

Thomson wrote an obituary for her father and gave permission to a funeral home and the Green’s Harbour Community Channel to publish it, along with a photograph she’d taken. The decision acts as a deterrentShe later discovered that Afterlife was displaying her father’s obituary and photograph on its website alongside options to buy flowers and virtual candles — all without her permission. …

News Oct 11, 2017

Las Vegas Shooting: Lawsuit Filed as New Questions Raised Over Timeline

A California college student injured in the Las Vegas music festival massacre filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the hotel owners, the concert promoter and bump stock manufacturers, claiming they were all liable in the mass shooting. The claims against MGM Resorts International, which owns both Mandalay Bay and the concert venue that hosted the festival, raise more questions about a timeline that has changed numerous times — and, according to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, could change again. …

Legal News Nov 9, 2016

Woman Wins Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against Ex After He Posts Revenge Porn Photos

It’s a growing trend in the United States, and one that is sickening and illegal: Revenge porn. Our story begins with a young woman, an aspiring model who posed for nude photos thinking they would remain relatively obscured and within her control. An ex-boyfriend is accused of posing as the woman to obtain photos from the photographer who took them.

News Nov 1, 2016

Could Facebook, Google Survive a Face Recognition Lawsuit?

One of the most important uses of Facebook Inc. ( FB ) and Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google’s ( GOOG ) artificial intelligence is face recognition technology. Both tech behemoths have combined it with their data processing capabilities to develop new features in their products. For example, Google Photos uses face recognition technology to streamline searches and quickly identify people and …

News May 10, 2016

Facebook Must Fight for Its Facial Recognition Tech in Court

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.

Settlements May 10, 2016

Shutterfly Settles Illinois Privacy Class Action Over Facial Recognition Tech

Shutterfly has settled a class action suit alleging the online photo sharing site violated Illinois privacy laws by creating a system permitting photos to be stored and searched using facial recognition technology. The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed. The plaintiff, Brian Norberg, had filed suit claiming the Redwood City, Calif.-based Shutterfly and its Palo Alto, …

Lawsuits Mar 15, 2016

NFL Acknowledges CTE Link With Football. Now What?

For years, the NFL has avoided saying whether football was related to CTE and deferred to the medical community’s findings on the matter. So why the change now? What is CTE?

Lawsuits Mar 11, 2016

Google Sued Over Facial Recognition in Photo Sharing, Latest Tech Giant to Face Class Action in IL

Google has become the latest titan of the digital age to face legal action under an Illinois law over the use of facial recognition technology and photo sharing. Chicago resident Lindabeth Rivera filed a class action complaint March 1 in federal court in Chicago, accusing the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaint is similar …

Lawsuits Mar 11, 2016

Class Action Suit Accuses Google of Stealing “Face Prints” Without Permission

In a case called Weiss v. Google Inc., plaintiff Joseph Weiss has filed a potential class action accusing Google of stealing “face templates” from Google Photos without permission. The case was filed in Illinois Northern District Court and accuses Google of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). BIPA regulates the collection, use, and storage of “biometric information” …

Lawsuits Jan 28, 2016

Advocates Urge Court to Reconsider Facebook’s $20 Million ‘Sponsored Stories’ Settlement

The University of San Diego’s Children’s Advocacy Institute is asking a federal appellate court to reconsider its recent decision upholding Facebook’s $20 million “sponsored stories” settlement. The watchdog, which is part of the law school’s Center for Public Interest Law, says the settlement will empower Facebook to “capture, rearrange and republish” posts by children. “It allows capture of …