Yahoo! Inc. allowed hackers to access personal and confidential information of its users and failed to warn consumers of a cybersecurity breach, a proposed class-action lawsuit claims. The suit followed within hours of Yahoo’s disclosure Wednesday that a second major security breach may have affected more than 1 billion user accounts.
In today’s world, as technology costs decrease and personal information becomes more valuable on the black market, data breaches have seemingly joined the ranks of death and taxes as certainties. Add to that litigation: companies suffering data breaches face exposure to lawsuits by consumers, employees, and even financial institutions. One particular concern for companies is the possibility of …
The settlement , filed recently in an Illinois federal court, says Standard Innovation, maker of We-Vibe sex toys, has “agreed to terms” regarding the anonymous plaintiff’s claims “on behalf of herself and a putative settlement class.” The suit , filed in September by a Chicago-area woman, alleged that the We-Vibe vibrator app for iOS and Android had collected information without consent on …
But what does free speech online have to do with any of this? Airbnb claims that it shouldn’t be on the hook for what users put in their listings, and that it isn’t breaking laws, its users who failed to go through a lengthy registration process for renting out their living spaces are. “Further, Airbnb’s argument that the city violated the First Amendment is moot because the ordinance ‘was not …
In September, Yahoo announced that at least 500 million user account credentials had been stolen from it in late 2014. Yahoo offered more details on the security breach’s effect on its business in an SEC filing on Wednesday. Although the company says it only spent $1 million related to the breach last quarter, it admitted that the breach may “cause users and customers to curtail or stop using our products and services.” CEO Marissa Mayer said last month that she was …
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 …
Steam has removed a developer’s games after Valve was subpoenaed for 100 users’ information in a nasty legal fight over user reviews on the games service. James Romine of Digital Homicide was granted the subpoena by a federal judge in Arizona. He is seeking the real identities of 100 users in an $18 million personal injury claim against these users for their comments and allegations of the …
Yes. It is actually happening. A Twitter shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the social networking platform, claiming that it misled investors with growth projections that have failed to come to pass.
Twitter is being sued by a shareholder over claims that it misled investors about its prospects for growth. Doris Shenwick has accused the company of making false statements about the company’s predicted user count and user engagement levels, causing wild fluctuations in Twitter’s stock prices. Shenwick claims Twitter executives misled investors in November 2014 when they promised an increase …
In 2013, Yahoo announced that it would begin scanning its users’ e-mail for targeted advertising purposes—just as Google does. As is par for the course, class-action lawsuits were filed. The Silicon Valley media giant, according to one of the lawsuits, was violating the “personal liberties” of non-Yahoo Mail users.