Category: lawsuit

Lawsuit forces The Weather Channel app to disclose location use

[ad_1] Part of the lawsuit read: “For years, TWC has deceptively used its Weather Channel app to amass its users’ private, personal geolocation data — tracking minute details about its users’ locations throughout the day and night, all while leading users to believe that their data will only be used to provide them with ‘personalized […]

Epic lawsuit claims Google blocked ‘Fortnite’ deals with OnePlus, LG

[ad_1] Epic Games already announced it’s suing Apple over the company removing Fortnite from its App Store due to the “Mega Drop” that offered players a way to purchase items directly from Epic for a lower price. Now Google has also pulled Fortnite from its mobile app store, and Epic Games has filed a lawsuit […]

Apple removes ‘Fortnite’ from App Store following direct payment push

[ad_1] Shortly after the removal, the company filed a lawsuit against Apple. Epic also announced it would stream a new short called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, which you can watch below. The title of the short is a reference to Apple’s iconic 1984 Macintosh ad. Epic also mentioned 1984 in their legal brief. “Today, Epic Games took […]

Judge dismisses Genius lawsuit against Google over ‘stolen’ lyrics

[ad_1] Google has consistently maintained it does not scrape other websites for their data. “We do not crawl or scrape websites to source these lyrics,” Google said in a blog post before Genius sued the company. “The lyrics that you see in information boxes on Search come directly from lyrics content providers, and they are updated automatically […]

Apple countersues headphone maker Koss in AirPods patent dispute

[ad_1] Apple is striking back at Koss, which filed a patent infringement lawsuit last month related to AirPods and Beats. It countersued the maker of the first stereo headphones, asking for a court to rule that Apple didn’t infringe any of the five patents as laid out in the original suit. Not only that, it […]

TikTok may sue White House over ban as soon as August 11th

[ad_1] The company declined to comment on the possibility of an impending lawsuit, but did acknowledge beliefs the order was issued “without any due process” and “no substantiation” of the security allegations. TikTok might not have as much trouble contesting the ban as you might think. While Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act […]

An OnlyFans creator is suing a site that hosts paywalled images for free

[ad_1] Waidhofer and her attorney allege that Thothub has not been responsive to repeated requests to remove content, but Thothub told Motherboard that it “did not receive any valid DMCA request and no valid information for removals” via its takedown request form. Thothub did reportedly remove images of Waidhofer after Motherboard contacted the site to […]

Australian government sues Google for misleading consumers in data collection

[ad_1] From June 2016 to December 2018, Google account holders were met with a pop-up that explained “optional features” to accounts regarding how the company collected their data. Consumers could click “I agree,” and Google would begin collecting a “wide range of personally identifiable information” from them, according to the ACCC. The lawsuit contends that […]

Koss sues Apple and Bose for allegedly copying wireless headphone tech

[ad_1] Koss didn’t ask the court to block sales of the headphones involved in the dispute. It instead focused on money, demanding that its competitors pay “three times” the damages determined by either the court or the jury. We’ve asked Apple and Bose for comment. This may be a challenging case for Koss. It’s effectively […]