Apple dominates the cloud storage market “by rigging the competitive playing field so that only iCloud can win,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 5:24-cv-01270) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Rebecca Day
Rebecca Day, Senior editor, joined Warren Communications News in 2010. She’s a longtime CE industry veteran who has also written about consumer tech for Popular Mechanics, Residential Tech Today, CE Pro and others. You can follow Day on Instagram and Twitter: @rebday
Some 21% of data breach victims don’t realize their identity has been compromised until more than two years after it has happened, said a class action (docket 8:24-cv-00433) brought by three plaintiffs vs. loanDepot Friday in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.
A long-time T-Mobile customer is suing the carrier over the “regulatory programs & telco recovery fee” on its monthly invoices, said a class action removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.
OpenAI, under its new board put in place during a tumultuous period in November amid Sam Altman’s ouster and return as CEO, is "refining" its artificial general intelligence (AGI) to maximize profits for Microsoft, "rather than for the benefit of humanity,” said Elon Musk’s fraud complaint Thursday (24-612746) in San Francisco County Superior Court.
Business Insider parent Insider Inc. violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by using a tracking tool that collects the IP addresses of visitors to its website without prior consent and a court order, alleged a class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-01566) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
HopSkipDrive should have known it was responsible for protecting plaintiff Tara McIntosh’s and class members' personal information, alleged McIntosh’s data breach negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-01676) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The ride-hailing service waited over three months after being notified of a May 31-June 10 data breach, discovered “one to two months afterward,” to notify McIntosh of the incident, said the complaint. The Spokane, Washington, resident received a letter from HopSkipDrive Nov. 14, notifying her that her personally identifiable information had been improperly accessed, it said.
A Liberty, Missouri, hospital “disregarded” Dan Cook's rights by “intentionally, willfully, recklessly, or negligently failing to take and implement adequate and reasonable measures” to protect his personal health (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), alleged Cook's class action Wednesday (docket 4:24-cv-00134) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City.
Two streaming video apps violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by integrating Meta tracking code into their platforms to disclose subscribers’ video viewing history to Meta for advertising and marketing purposes, said separate class actions against MLB.tv and FitOn.
The proposed class in a fraud class action challenging a Ponzi scheme involving bogus overseas licensing rights for HBO and Netflix films is owed $300 million for amounts loaned in 2018 and 2019, alleged AVR Group, Trident Asset Management and Illinois resident Michael Dziurgot in a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-20755) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.
A data breach at Multi-Fineline Electronix (MFlex) in Irvine, California, was a direct result of the printed circuit manufacturer’s failure to implement adequate cybersecurity procedures to protect employees’ and beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information (PII) from a “foreseeable and preventable” cyberattack, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 8:24-cv-00400) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.