AT&T has managed to successfully tap dance around a class action lawsuit filed by customers whose “unlimited” wireless data connections were throttled without AT&T making the restrictions clear. US District Court Judge Edward Chen has told customers suing the telco for its misleading throttling practices that they can’t sue as part of a class action — because they signed a contract with AT&T …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …