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Workday faces lawsuit over alleged AI bias
HR SaaS company Workday is facing a collective lawsuit from several job seekers claiming its HiredScore AI service discriminates against workers over the age of 40. The case started in February 2023, when Derek Mobley – a black ,disabled man over the age of 40 – filed a lawsuit alleging the screening tools on Workday’s platform “allow its customers to…
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How to File a Claim in Apple’s Siri Lawsuit Settlement
Siri is a virtual assistant integrated into most Apple devices that, when called upon, can answer questions or perform specific on-device tasks, like setting an alarm or sending a text. While some Siri voice requests are processed locally on your device, others may be sent to and processed on Apple’s servers, the company says. Transcripts of your Siri requests may…
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CrowdStrike prepares for battle as Delta given go-ahead for outage lawsuit
Delta Air Lines has been told it can take CrowdStrike to court to seek damages after last summer’s outage forced the airline to cancel 7,000 flights. In July 2024, a flawed update to CrowdStrike software knocked offline more than eight million Windows devices globally, causing widespread disruption for the companies that relied on them, from banks to retailers, broadcasters and…
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Microsoft faces another lawsuit over software licensing practices
Microsoft is facing one of the UK’s largest ever class action lawsuits over its software licensing practices. In a claim estimated at billions of pounds in total, barrister Alexander Wolfson said the company has been overcharging customers for certain products, including its Office and Windows product lines, since October 2015. The lawsuit alleges that the tech giant restricted competition to…
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Microsoft faces UK class action lawsuit over licensing – Computerworld
Microsoft faces more legal action in the UK, this time from a barrister named Alexander Wolfson who issued an opt-out class action claim this week alleging that public or private organizations in the UK that purchased certain software licenses (including for Microsoft Office and Windows) since October 1, 2015, were overcharged due to Microsoft’s market practices. Wolfson, who retained the…
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Infamous Switch 2 Leaker Now Faces a Lawsuit from Nintendo
International trade shows like CES, IFA, and MWC give consumer tech manufacturers an opportunity to interact with journalists. So, naturally, businesses that attend these events try to maximize media coverage by showing off nutty products, throwing generous parties, or creating other forms of spectacle. But game accessory Genki did something unprecedented at CES 2025—it leaked the Switch 2. Now, Nintendo…
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Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs
A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing “the rug to be pulled out from under them,” and say they wouldn’t have bought its NFTs if they’d known they were “unregistered securities,” reports Reuters. Filed in New…
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Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
The Trump administration breached a federal privacy law by letting workers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access information on millions of government workers, privacy advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) allege in a new lawsuit filed on behalf of two labor unions and a group of current and former federal employees. The groups allege that DOGE…
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LinkedIn lawsuit over AI model training withdrawn
A lawsuit accusing LinkedIn of using customer data to train its AI models has been dropped. Last month, a class action case was filed against the Microsoft-owned professional networking firm in a California federal court on behalf of LinkedIn user Alessandro De La Torre. The suit accused the company of disclosing Premium customers’ private messages to third parties to train…
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Apple paying $20 million over Apple Watch lawsuit — see if you’re eligible
Apple has to pay some money to users who experienced battery swelling with their older Apple Watch. Specifically, anyone who owned an Apple Watch Series 1, 2 or 3 is eligible for a payout of $20 million, which the Cupertino company has agreed to pay. The lawsuit, Smith et al. v. Apple Inc., was filed in the United States District…
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