Category: Legal Law

Character.AI could also update chatbots to protect kids further, the lawsuit said. For one, the chatbots could be designed to…

Repeatedly in the course of the documentary, Todd confesses to being Satoshi, before retreating from the admission. “By the way,…

“Crystal finds all of this deeply intrusive… Crystal worries about how the Flock Cameras are eroding not just her privacy,…

Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post have accused artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity of a “brazen scheme” to…

AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months for prepaid users. AT&T…

Vice President Kamala Harris will likely continue Biden’s war on “junk fees” if elected, Reuters reported, and Holyoak claimed that…

In one post on anonymous messaging platform Blind, seen by the Financial Times, one former Meta staffer wrote they had…

Vladeck questioned the ethics of X’s terms in comments quoted by NPR. “For X to say we want all of…

In April, TSMC was provided with $6.6 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding to “support TSMC’s investment of more than…

Amazon workers are being reminded that they can find work elsewhere if they’re unhappy with Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate. In…

Because “Caroline’s diagnosis was terminal… an abortion would not have saved her life, only extended it. Florida law would not…

Reuters noted that these child exploitation cases are an early test that could soon reveal how hard it is for…

“After Breton resigned in September, he bequeathed his fining powers to competition and digital boss Margrethe Vestager. Decisions on the…

The motion said the punishment had “a significant, severe, and continuing impact on RNH’s future earning capacity, earning potential, and…

Following an investigation, Elon Musk’s X has won its fight to avoid gatekeeper status under the European Union’s strict competition…

As for actual speeds in 2024, Starlink’s website says “users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220Mbps, with a…

Simington argued that regulating data caps would harm customers, using an analogy about the hypothetical regulation of coffee refills: Suppose…

Last week, hackers defaced the Internet Archive website with a message that said, “Have you ever felt like the Internet…

“The use of artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing reality across many industries,” Schopf wrote. “The mere fact that artificial…

The legal saga over Martin Shkreli’s infamous 5,000 percent price hike of a life-saving anti-parasitic drug has ended with a…

Musi is hoping a jury will agree that Apple breached its developer agreement and the covenant of good faith and…

We estimate that at least 10,000 accounts like these were active daily on the platform, and that was before X…

Instead of radically altering the threat landscape, OpenAI tools like ChatGPT are mostly used to take shortcuts or save costs,…

Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users…

“Discovery on those topics is inevitable, and there is no reason to further delay,” the executives argued. The executives have…

There has been a rash of iPhone thefts around the US the past few months, conducted by “porch pirates” often…

“The First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter,” the FCC website says. “Our…

Brazil’s Supreme Court is allowing Elon Musk’s X to resume operations, apparently ending a months-long battle after the social network…

“Hampering Google’s AI tools risks holding back American innovation at a critical moment,” Mulholland warned, claiming that AI is still…

Google plans appeal Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney wrote that the injunction “means all app developers, store makers, carriers, and…

Why did the study target X? The University of Michigan research team worried that their experiment posting AI-generated NCII on…

“Going forward, the government will never have to prove it could avoid seriously jeopardizing its investigation by disclosing a warrant…

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems…

“Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce that human expression, he…

There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for…

“Had X Corp’s argument been accepted by the Court, it could have set the concerning precedent that a foreign company’s…

Two men involved in an elaborate scheme duping Apple into replacing about 6,000 counterfeit iPhones with genuine iPhones were sentenced…

“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at…

As a message highlighted above the thread warned YouTube users that there were “longer than normal wait times” for support…

Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract…

Tina Peters, a former election official in Colorado’s Mesa County who promoted former President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy theories and…

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed charges against Amazon, alleging that the e-commerce giant has illegally refused to…

To prevent anyone from being doxxed, the co-creators are not releasing the code, Nguyen said on social media site X.…

eBay has defeated a lawsuit that the US Department of Justice raised last fall, which alleged that eBay violated environmental…

Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million fine and improve its security in a…

Following site-wide user protests last year that featured moderators turning thousands of subreddits private or not-safe-for-work (NSFW), Reddit announced that…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A married couple can’t sue Uber over severe injuries they suffered in a 2022 car accident…

On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn’t be reached after a US district court…

Enlarge / Former US President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance at the National 9/11 Memorial and…

Most members of Dell’s sales team will no longer have the option to work remotely, starting on Monday, Reuters reported…

Nick Dedeke is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, Boston. His research interests include digital transformation strategies, ethics, and…

Google wound down its defense in the US Department of Justice’s ad tech monopoly trial this week, following a week…

Valve Corporation, tired of paying arbitration fees, has removed a mandatory arbitration clause from Steam’s subscriber agreement. Valve told gamers…

Enlarge / Photographs included in an FBI affidavit show a woman believed to be Sarah Beth Clendaniel. FBI A Maryland…

California recently became the first state to ban deceptive sales of so-called “disappearing media.” On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed…

Among the first AI companies that the Federal Trade Commission has exposed as deceiving consumers is DoNotPay—which initially was advertised…

Amazon corporate office building in Sunnyvale, California. Getty Images An overwhelming majority of Amazon employees are “dissatisfied” with Amazon killing…

Enlarge / California Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference in San Francisco on September 19, 2024. Getty Images |…

Enlarge / Caroline Ellison, former chief executive officer of Alameda Research LLC, was sentenced Tuesday for helping Sam Bankman-Fried cover…

Getty Images | SOPA Images Elon Musk is apparently conceding defeat in his fight with Brazil Supreme Court Judge Alexandre…

Cloudflare announced new tools Monday that it claims will help end the era of endless AI scraping by giving all…

A United Nations report released Thursday proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and…

Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. Starlink New Starlink customers have to pay a $100 “congestion charge” in areas where the…

Enlarge / Ralph de la Torre, founder and chief executive officer of Steward Health Care System LLC, speaks during a…

If the past five years of EU tech rules could take human form, they would embody Thierry Breton. The bombastic…

Aurich Lawson | Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX yesterday, alleging that Elon Musk’s firm illegally took over…

Aurich Lawson As the US Department of Justice aims to break up Google’s alleged ad tech monopoly, experts say that…

A mistrial was declared today in the trial of former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza, who was accused of…

LinkedIn admitted Wednesday that it has been training its own AI on many users’ data without seeking consent. Now there’s…

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto Four…

Enlarge / An image from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where in 1874, the newest thing was not software…

Zynga must pay IBM nearly $45 million in damages after a jury ruled that popular games in its FarmVille series, as…

AT&T agreed to pay a $13 million fine because it gave customer bill information to a vendor in order to…

Enlarge / Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro participate in an event in the central area of Sao Paulo, Brazil,…

Enlarge / Andrew J. Pincus, attorney for TikTok and ByteDance, leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman US Court House with members…

Enlarge / Boeing Factory workers assemble Boeing 787 airliners at the Boeing factory in Everett, WA. Boeing is hoping to…

Getty Images | SOPA Images Apple has suffered a significant defeat after the EU’s top court ruled that the iPhone…

Enlarge / Google’s booth at the Integrated Systems Europe conference on January 31, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images |…

Getty Images | Dan Kitwood Elon Musk has lambasted Australia’s government as “fascists” over proposed laws that could levy substantial…

Enlarge / Union members cheer during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM…

The Biden administration has proposed rules that could make it more costly for Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu…

Federal authorities have seized more than 350 websites after an undercover investigation revealed that the sites were used to illegally…

Enlarge / Harvard Business School was targeted by a faculty member’s lawsuit. Earlier this year, we got a look at…

BalticServers.com Data centers powering the generative AI boom are gulping water and exhausting electricity at what some researchers view as…

Enlarge / A staffer with the Paul, Weiss legal firm wheels boxes of legal documents into the Albert V. Bryan…

The US government recently announced multiple charges against the alleged leaders of the “Terrorgram Collective,” which does just what it…

Nevada will soon become the first state to use AI to help speed up the decision-making process when ruling on…

Olga Pankova/Moment via Getty Images This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for…

Enlarge / Karen Dunn, one of the lawyers representing Google, outside of the Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse at the…

Getty Images | SOPA Images Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband service said it would defy an order to block Musk’s X…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Starlink said it is complying with Brazil’s order to block Elon Musk’s X platform, backtracking from…

The Department of Justice is reportedly deepening its probe into Nvidia. Officials have moved on from merely questioning competitors to…

Getty Images | picture alliance Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, in his first public comments since being arrested by French authorities,…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Cops are now using AI to generate images of fake kids, which are helping them…

Elon Musk’s X has won its appeal on free speech grounds to block AB 587, a California law requiring social…

Enlarge / A Verizon FiOS truck in Manhattan on September 15, 2017. Verizon today announced a deal to acquire Frontier…

Enlarge / Spotify released the Car Thing to the general public in February 2022. It’s bricking them in December. For…

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal after book publishers successfully sued to block the Open Libraries Project from lending…

A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined…

Disney Disney-owned channels have been blacked out on DirecTV for the past two days because of a contract dispute, with…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain…

Enlarge / California governor Gavin Newsom will likely soon face a decision on whether to sign SB-1047. Ray Chavez/The Mercury…

Enlarge / Backpage founder Michael Lacey testifying at a US Senate hearing in January 2017. Backpage founder Michael Lacey was…

Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the National Association of Theatre…

Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at Tesla’s “Cyber Rodeo” on April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images…

After Stanford Internet Observatory researcher David Thiel found links to child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in an AI training dataset…

Major technology companies, including Google, Apple, and Discord, have been enabling people to quickly sign up to harmful “undress” websites,…

A judge in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order against a security researcher who presented evidence that a recent…

The rise in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been one of the darkest Internet trends, but after years of…

OpenAI and Anthropic have each signed unprecedented deals granting the US government early access to conduct safety testing on the…

Enlarge / Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21, 2015, in…

An appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by reversing a lower court’s ruling that Section 230 immunity shielded…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Elon Musk’s X platform made a change to its AI assistant, Grok, that may prevent it…

Enlarge / AT&T’s stand at Mobile World Congress on February 27, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | Joan Cros…

Enlarge / Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey arrives to testify at House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, January 10,…

Enlarge / Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21, 2015, in…

Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan arrives to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee at the Rayburn House…

Getty Images | Josh Edelson Google has agreed to fund local journalism and an artificial intelligence initiative in California as…

Amazon may be forced to meet some unionized delivery drivers at the bargaining table after a regional National Labor Relations…

Enlarge / US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, August 23, 2024.…

A federal judge sentenced a 53-year-old Kansas man to more than 24 years in prison after the former bank CEO…

A Kentucky man has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison after hacking into state registries to fake his…

Enlarge / President Joe Biden leaving the White House on August 16, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Anna…

Chrome users who declined to sync their Google accounts with their browsing data secured a big privacy win this week…

Enlarge / Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert…

Getty Images | Gary Hershorn Disney said it is abandoning its motion to compel arbitration in a case filed by…

Elon Musk had no business sending Twitter employees an email giving them 24 hours to click “yes” to keep their…

Getty Images | SimpleImages A federal judge who bought more than $15,000 worth of Tesla stock has rejected a motion…

Getty Images | A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that geofence warrants, which are used to identify all users…

Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography ISPs asked the US Supreme Court to strike down a New York law that…

Enlarge / Raglan Road Irish Pub at Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida, USA. After a woman, Kanokporn Tangsuan, with severe…

San Francisco’s city attorney David Chiu is suing to shut down 16 of the most popular websites and apps allowing…

Gina Ferazzi via Getty A US judge has temporarily blocked the launch of a sports streaming service formed by Disney’s…

A large Internet service provider wants the Supreme Court to rule that ISPs shouldn’t have to disconnect broadband users who…

T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon are urging telecom regulators to reject a key part of SpaceX’s plan to offer cellular service…

Enlarge / Kim Dotcom speaks to the media after a bail hearing at Auckland District Court on December 1, 2014,…

Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated…

Upside Foods Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed yesterday.…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Getty Images | Dan Kitwood Elon Musk clashed with the EU ahead of a planned interview with Donald Trump on…

Google announced Monday that it’s shutting down all AdSense accounts in Russia due to “ongoing developments in Russia.” This effectively…

FT montage/Getty Images TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users’ phones, including a false claim about…

US workers who work remotely are 27 percent more likely to look forward to doing their job, according to a…

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially launched a probe into Amazon’s $4 billion partnership with the…

Getty Images | SOPA Images An advertising industry initiative targeted by an Elon Musk lawsuit is “discontinuing” its activities and…

Enlarge / US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 1.1 million Samsung Slide-in Electric Ranges due to hundreds…

Enlarge / Screenshot from AT&T commercial featuring Ben Stiller making a satellite call to Jordan Spieth. AT&T has been told…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Antitrust law professors aren’t impressed by Elon Musk’s lawsuit alleging a supposed X advertising boycott…

FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange formerly helmed by fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, has agreed to pay $12.7 billion to customers blindsided…

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s…

Aurich Lawson After US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google has a monopoly in two markets—general search services and…

Enlarge / Delta Air Lines customers looking for missing bags wait in line at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Elon Musk’s X Corp. today sued the World Federation of Advertisers and several large corporations,…

Getty Images | imaginima Illinois has changed its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) to dramatically limit the financial penalties faced…

Google just lost a massive antitrust trial over its sprawling search business, as US district judge Amit Mehta released his ruling,…

On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture…

Getty Images The US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia’s acquisition of Run:ai, an Israeli artificial intelligence startup, for potential…

A Google data center in Douglas County, Georgia. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with…

Enlarge / Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during an interview at Bloomberg House on the opening day of…

Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers…

The US Department of Justice sued TikTok today, accusing the short-video platform of illegally collecting data on millions of kids…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has joined progressive groups—including Demand Progress, Open Markets Institute, and the Tech Oversight Project—pressuring the US…

Enlarge / View of San Francisco with Russian Hill in the background. Getty Images | Terraxplorer San Francisco’s Board of…

Getty Images |NurPhoto Meta says it configured its AI chatbot to avoid answering questions about the Trump rally shooting in…

Today, Google announced new measures to combat the rapidly increasing spread of AI-generated non-consensual explicit deepfakes in its search results.…

Charter Communications agreed to pay a $15 million fine after admitting that it failed to notify more than a thousand…

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) easily passed the Senate today despite critics’ concerns that the bill may risk creating…

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle claims that the company…

Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle. The death of the US government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is starting to result…

After years of controversies over plans to scan iCloud to find more child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), Apple abandoned those…

Enlarge / Travelers navigate customer service and ticketing lines at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024 in…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Internet service providers are eager to get money from a $42.45 billion government fund, but…

Enlarge / John Legere, then-CEO of T-Mobile, at an event on March 26, 2013, in New York City. Getty Images…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during a House hearing on March 31, 2022, in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Elon Musk’s fight against Media Matters for America (MMFA)—a watchdog organization that he largely blames for an ad boycott that…

Enlarge / On the left, a stock photo. On the right, an AI-enhanced image based on the stock photo. The…

A government investigation has revealed more detail on the impact and causes of a recent AT&T outage that happened immediately…

On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit denied a request to put a hold on recently…

Founded in Dresden in the early 1990s, Germany’s Solarwatt quickly became an emblem of Europe’s renewable energy ambitions and bold…

The European Commission (EC) has finally taken action to block Meta’s heavily criticized plan to charge a subscription fee to…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr arrive to testify during a House committee hearing on…

Google tried to derail a Microsoft antitrust settlement over anticompetitive software licensing in the European Union by offering a $500…

RealPage says it isn’t doing anything wrong by suggesting to landlords how much rent they could charge. In a move…

Continuing to evolve the fact-checking service that launched as Twitter’s Birdwatch, X has announced that Community Notes can now be…

Getty Images | SOPA Images Citing frustration with mobile carriers enforcing different phone-unlocking policies that are bad for consumers, the…

Enlarge / A telephone in a prison. The Federal Communications Commission today voted to lower price caps on prison phone…

Elon Musk’s fight defending X’s content moderation decisions isn’t just with hate speech researchers and advertisers. He has also long…

This week, Meta asked a US district court in California to toss a lawsuit filed by a professor, Ethan Zuckerman,…

US senators want AT&T to explain why it stores massive amounts of call and text message records on a third-party…

Getty Images | Bloomberg TikTok helped promote Germany’s far-right extremist political party to young voters ahead of last month’s EU…

Enlarge / Dr. Craig Wright arrives at the Rolls Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice, on February 6,…

A feces-encrusted swim diaper tanked a family business after Amazon re-sold it as new, Bloomberg reported, triggering a bad review…

Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday, alleging that the Internet service provider violated copyright…

Enlarge / An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on June…

Two Russian citizens arrested for running the pirate e-book site Z-Library have reportedly escaped house arrest in Argentina and vanished…

A court has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Amazon’s Buy Box was rigged to rip off customers seeking…

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg A federal judge yesterday granted…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Elon Musk’s overhaul of the Twitter verification system deceives users and violates the Digital Services Act,…