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27 posts and columns on class action
Happy Holidays, Instagram! Here, Have a Class-Action Lawsuit.
And a happy new year!
Apple Ordered to Produce Documents in Suit Over iPhone Location Data
Another legal headache for Apple.
Antennagate Ends, With a $15 Settlement
Our long national nightmare, kaput.
The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin: Put the Non-Blabby Deals in Your PIPE and Smoke It
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
Law Firm Won’t Pursue SuperPoke Pets Shutdown Class Action Suit Against Google
Avid users of Slide’s SuperPoke Pets yelled, begged and left angry blog comments, but so far no law firm wants to represent them in a class action lawsuit.
You've Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL's HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.
The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)
Voices
Suit to Snuff Out "History Sniffing" Takes Aim at Tracking Web Users
A lawsuit filed Friday for alleged use of “history sniffing,” a method for surreptitiously detecting what websites a person has visited, is the latest to take aim at technologies that harvest Internet users’ personal information.
News Byte
Google Settles Buzz Suit
In the end Buzz, Google’s ill-starred, privacy-violating social networking service, proved more of a public relations burden than a financial one. The company on Tuesday settled the class action suit brought against it, for its foolish decision to use Buzz to transform our private Gmail address books into public social networks, by agreeing to establish an $8.5 million fund for Internet privacy education and policy.Voices
"Cookies" Cause Bitter Backlash
Tools that track users’ whereabouts on the Web are facing increased regulatory and public scrutiny and prompting a flurry of legal challenges. Since July, at least six suits have been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against websites and companies that create advertising technology, accusing them of installing online-tracking tools that are so surreptitious that they essentially hack into users’ machines without their knowledge.
Intel Wins Key Antitrust Ruling
Intel has won a crucial victory in a lawsuit claiming that consumers were harmed by the improper discounts it allegedly used to discourage PC makers from buying chips from its rivals. Late Thursday, a court-appointed “special master” recommended that the judge presiding over the case deny it class-action status, saying essentially that if consumers were overcharged as a result of Intel’s alleged tactics, it wasn’t Intel’s fault.