Yahoo’s once-iconic San Francisco billboard, pictured here in 2011. In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over its practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads. The cases, which were consolidated in federal court, all argued that the privacy rights of non-Yahoo users, who “did not consent to Yahoo’s interception and scanning of their emails,” were being violated …
Yahoo has agreed to add new language to its privacy policy in order to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it wrongly scans email messages for advertising purposes, according to court papers filed on Thursday. The proposed settlement also requires the company to make some technical changes to the way it scans emails, but doesn’t require Yahoo to stop surrounding emails with ads. The …
“Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act” a Corporate Giveaway The following is a statement from American Association for Justice (AAJ) CEO Linda Lipsen in response to the U.S. House of Representatives passing H.R. 1927, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act justice.org. : “If I said Congress was …
A federal appeals court on Wednesday clicked the “like” button on the $20 million settlement of a sweeping privacy challenge to Facebook’s past use of social media images in advertising features. In a unanimous three-judge ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to a hard-fought settlement of a class-action brought on behalf of Facebook users that centered on claims …