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Allstate car insurer sued for tracking drivers without permission
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its data subsidiary Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans. The two companies are accused of paying millions of dollars to app developers to embed tracking code in widely used mobile apps to gather the location and movement data of people…
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Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has resulted in a federal lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that he broke securities laws with a late disclosure, and saved $150 million in the process. Before Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, before he tried to back out of that deal, before he was forced to go through with…
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NSO Group used another WhatsApp zero-day after being sued, court docs say
Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group reportedly used multiple zero-day exploits, including an unknown one named “Erised,” that leveraged WhatsApp vulnerabilities to deploy Pegasus spyware in zero-click attacks, even after getting sued. Pegasus is NSO Group’s spyware platform (marketed as surveillance software for governments worldwide), with multiple software components that provide customers with extensive surveillance capabilities over victims’ compromised devices. For…
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Apple Sued Over AirPods Pro Crackling Audio Issues
Apple is being sued over the crackling and static sounds and other audio quality issues plaguing its very first AirPods Pro model, released in 2019 and sold through September 2022. Shortly after the first AirPods Pro units arrived, early adopters flocked to social media to complain about static sounds, crackling, rattling, and popping—exacerbated when walking or running, sometimes causing loss…
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Character.AI and Google sued after chatbot-obsessed teen’s death
A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. Filed by the teen’s mother, Megan Garcia, it claims the platform for custom AI chatbots was “unreasonably dangerous” and lacked safety guardrails while being marketed to…
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Researcher sued for sharing data stolen by ransomware with media
The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of illegally downloading and disseminating data stolen from the City’s IT network and leaked by the Rhysida ransomware gang. Columbus, the capital and most populous (2,140,000) city in Ohio, suffered a ransomware attack on July 18, 2024, which caused various…
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Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training – Computerworld
Generative AI firm, Anthropic, is embroiled in a new legal battle after three authors filed a class-action lawsuit in California federal court, accusing the company of illegally using their copyrighted works to train its AI-powered chatbot, Claude. The complaint, filed on Monday, alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson,…
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