58 stories tagged lawsuit, newest first.
170 points by DeepLogin | 37 comments
New Mexico Department of Justice press release announcing a $25 billion civil penalty against Facebook in its Cambridge Analytica consumer protection case.
634 points by cbg0 | 418 comments
CNBC news article reporting that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty in a Cambridge Analytica-related data privacy case.
23 points by LorenDB | 5 comments
TechPowerUp news article reporting a Delaware jury found Arm breached its architecture license with Qualcomm, awarding Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages.
12 points by rndsignals | 2 comments
Financial Times article reporting OpenAI's claim that an employee sent secret information about its device to Apple.
175 points by bhrlady | 136 comments
Inc. article on a New Jersey lawsuit alleging a remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that photographed her every three minutes.
576 points by papergirl | 541 comments
Authors Guild press release on unsealed briefs in its lawsuit alleging Microsoft and OpenAI executives knew using pirated books for AI training was illegal.
348 points by pseudolus | 94 comments
CBS News report that a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
367 points by vinayakborkar | 208 comments
News article reporting that PBS station Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archival TV data after its cloud vendor went defunct and is suing Iron Mountain to preserve it.
764 points by boplicity | 407 comments
News report that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567m over harms to children's mental health from its social media platforms.
319 points by thewebguyd | 243 comments
TechCrunch article reporting Apple's claim that additional former employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI.
341 points by softwaredoug | 323 comments
News report on a Netflix executive suing after being fired over a personal confession made during a trust exercise at a company retreat.
1555 points by stock_toaster | 871 comments
9to5Mac news article reporting that Apple has sued OpenAI, accusing former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets.
360 points by donohoe | 170 comments
Seoul Economic Daily article on a US lawsuit accusing Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of memory price fixing; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error.
1011 points by nycdatasci | 515 comments
TechCrunch news article reporting that Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
513 points by iancmceachern | 278 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on Louis Rossmann offering to pay legal fees for an OrcaSlicer developer threatened with a lawsuit by Bambu Lab.
373 points by spankibalt | 337 comments
Variety news article on a publishers' lawsuit, including author Scott Turow, alleging Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized Meta's copyright infringement in training AI models.
418 points by mrjaeger | 201 comments
New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.
391 points by testrun | 205 comments
BBC News article reporting that Meta has been ordered to pay $375m for misleading users about child safety on its platforms.
412 points by billfor | 499 comments
CNN Business article reporting that a New Mexico jury found Meta liable in a case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
1095 points by antonymoose | 628 comments
New York Post news article reporting that rapper Afroman was found not liable in an Ohio defamation lawsuit brought by sheriff's deputies who raided his home.
399 points by geox | 307 comments
News article on a US trial where jurors heard claims that Meta and Google engineered addictive platforms; the page shows only a Cloudflare security check.
411 points by randycupertino | 240 comments
Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.
347 points by binning | 146 comments
TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.
1452 points by Brajeshwar | 535 comments
Ars Technica article on a lock company suing a popular YouTuber who showed its $130 lock being opened with a shim, and the backlash that followed.
350 points by coloneltcb | 148 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive's copyright lawsuit with music publishers over digitized 78rpm records has ended in a settlement.
364 points by mikece | 485 comments
PetaPixel article reporting that Home Depot faces a lawsuit alleging it secretly used facial recognition technology on self-checkout cameras.
347 points by amarcheschi | 182 comments
Malwarebytes Labs news post reporting a court finding that Meta accessed women's health data from the Flo period-tracking app without user consent.
583 points by moose44 | 563 comments
Proton blog post announcing it has joined a lawsuit against Apple over App Store practices it says harm developers and consumers.
501 points by amacneil | 125 comments
An X post by Rippling CEO Parker Conrad announcing that Rippling is suing competitor Deel over alleged corporate spying.
452 points by coloneltcb | 153 comments
Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.
570 points by isaacfrond | 382 comments
Ars Technica article on Meta's legal defense that torrenting pirated books for AI training isn't infringement without proof it seeded files.
1118 points by gameshot911 | 804 comments
Ars Technica article on unsealed Meta emails in an authors' copyright case alleging Meta torrented and seeded 81.7 TB of pirated books to train AI.
![Screenshot of media.ccc.de: We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/29/7726c93e-094a-4af5-9e8a-ad5b707f0234.jpg)
348 points by doener | 58 comments
Video of a 38C3 talk by Dragon Sector researchers about the aftermath of disclosing DRM in Newag trains, including the lawsuit filed against them.
501 points by o999 | 167 comments
Reuters link about a US judge ruling NSO Group liable for hacking WhatsApp users, but the page shows a captcha bot-check instead of the article.
480 points by arvindh-manian | 490 comments
OpenAI blog post presenting a timeline of events arguing that Elon Musk himself wanted OpenAI to become a for-profit company.
407 points by kbarmettler | 171 comments
CourtListener docket entry for the N.D. California court order on WP Engine's motion for a preliminary injunction against Automattic.
324 points by m463 | 168 comments
Fight for the Future campaign page with an open letter from 350+ musicians urging major labels to drop their lawsuit against the Internet Archive.
![Screenshot of wpengine.com: Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/10/3/73270975-adc9-4415-83ed-171893678646.jpg)
510 points by dangrossman | 519 comments
PDF of the legal complaint filed by WP Engine against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, with exhibits, hosted on wpengine.com.
325 points by svenfaw | 156 comments
The Block news article on a lawsuit alleging Google took three months to remove a scam app from its store that stole over $5 million in crypto.
![Screenshot of texasattorneygeneral.gov: Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/8/14/ec75c42a-4b77-4e21-b2b3-90829e3c57bd.jpg)
446 points by jonhohle | 279 comments
PDF of the Texas Attorney General's petition suing General Motors for collecting and selling drivers' private driving data without consent.
461 points by cratermoon | 403 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive had to remove about 500,000 books from its lending library after publishers won their copyright lawsuit.
2457 points by ChrisArchitect | 797 comments
FTC press release announcing a lawsuit against Adobe and two executives for hiding early termination fees and making software subscriptions hard to cancel.
439 points by edsimpson | 169 comments
Ars Technica article on a lawsuit alleging Facebook gave Netflix access to user DMs and wound down Facebook Watch streaming to keep Netflix's ad spending.
936 points by mfiguiere | 767 comments
OpenAI blog post dated March 5, 2024 responding to Elon Musk, describing its mission and history with him.
388 points by ndiddy | 274 comments
An X/Twitter post reporting that the Yuzu Switch emulator developers settled Nintendo's lawsuit, agreeing to pay $2.4M in damages.
400 points by Tomte | 130 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that a court ordered NSO Group to share Pegasus spyware code with WhatsApp in its lawsuit, beyond just installation information.
![Screenshot of courthousenews.com: Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/3/1/848f2435-c107-42ed-a0df-734f6ac84d3d.jpg)
1306 points by modeless | 1030 comments
PDF of the court complaint filed by Elon Musk in San Francisco suing Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI.
813 points by brandrick | 557 comments
News article reporting that Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creators of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu.
457 points by justinc8687 | 758 comments
Ars Technica article on the New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which seeks destruction of GPT models trained on Times content.
466 points by ssgodderidge | 594 comments
The Verge news article reporting that The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging millions of its articles were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot models.
325 points by bookofjoe | 193 comments
Engadget news article reporting that Valeo sued Nvidia for trade secret theft after a screensharing mistake revealed Valeo's code.
351 points by HieronymusBosch | 155 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that Google sued two men accused of using 65 accounts to send fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting competitors' URLs.
322 points by fortran77 | 163 comments
Reason article about an Iowa man suing after being arrested twice for criticizing police at a public meeting.
1079 points by marcopolis | 797 comments
FTC press release announcing its lawsuit against Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct.
364 points by leotravis10 | 157 comments
Internet Archive blog post responding to a recording industry lawsuit over its digitization of obsolete media such as 78rpm records.
436 points by cwwc | 261 comments
The Drive news article reporting allegations that FedEx committed large-scale odometer rollback fraud on used delivery vans it sold.
537 points by jen20 | 372 comments
Reuters news report that the US SEC sued Coinbase, a day after suing Binance, reportedly over failure to register.
502 points by consumer451 | 347 comments
Business Insider article on a lawsuit alleging TikTok owner ByteDance maintained a backdoor allowing Chinese Communist Party access to US user data.