2025-10-01
Uber Technologies Inc. defeated a lawsuit from a California woman who said the ride-sharing giant is responsible for her 2016 sexual assault by an Uber driver, a San Francisco jury decided Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind trial. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Reuters
A California jury finds Uber not liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial out of 500+ consolidated lawsuits in the state
Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA
2024-11-19
BREAKING: Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world. https://blawgo.com/qShTxm7
Bloomberg
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more
- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
2024-07-27
The Paris Summer Olympics include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance, an AI event-security technology that uses machine learning to analyze video footage to detect threats and other anomalies. https://blawgo.com/dAouncL [video]
Bloomberg Law
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is using real-time AI-based video surveillance tech to detect and predict threats, raising concerns over mass surveillance
The Paris Summer Olympics that begin Friday include among the most public and controversial rollouts ever of algorithmic video surveillance …
2023-06-09
The first-of-its-kind case comes as generative AI programs face heightened scrutiny over their ability to spread misinformation and “hallucinate” false outputs. https://blawgo.com/9hVfZSh
Bloomberg Law
A radio host sues OpenAI for defamation over a ChatGPT hallucination, alleging the tool generated a false legal complaint accusing him of fraud and embezzlement
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law :
2023-06-08
The first-of-its-kind case comes as generative AI programs face heightened scrutiny over their ability to spread misinformation and “hallucinate” false outputs. https://blawgo.com/9hVfZSh
Bloomberg Law
A radio host sues OpenAI for defamation over a ChatGPT hallucination, alleging the tool generated a false legal complaint accusing him of fraud and embezzlement
OpenAI LLC is facing a defamation lawsuit from a Georgia radio host who claimed the viral artificial intelligence program ChatGPT generated …
2023-05-09
Apple failed to revive a long-running copyright lawsuit against a cybersecurity firm over its software that simulates the iPhone's iOS operating systems. https://blawgo.com/PMhTgG9
Bloomberg Law
A US appeals court upholds a lower court's 2019 ruling rejecting Apple's claims that Corellium's CORSEC security tool for simulating iOS violated copyright law
2023-02-20
Much of the discussion surrounding the case has focused on the costs to online companies if the court determines they are legally responsible for the hundreds of millions of comments, videos and other content posted by users every day. https://blawgo.com/KX5PGpw
Washington Post
A preview of the Gonzalez v. Google case at the SCOTUS and a look at the Israeli nonprofit law center Shurat HaDin opposing YouTube at a hearing on February 21
Back around 2010 (ish), some folks at Facebook conducted an experiment to see if they could influence people's behavior by altering what is in their feeds. … Dan York / @danyork@ma...
2023-02-18
Under securities law, a virtual currency may fall under the SEC's remit if Americans buy it to fund a company or project with the expectation of profiting from the efforts of those involved in it. https://blawgo.com/xPVc9Cr
The Block
Sources: Jump is the unnamed “US trading firm” that the SEC said helped support the TerraUSD stablecoin in May 2021; the SEC has not accused Jump of wrongdoing
Published 1 hour and 25 minutes earlier on — Jump is the unidentified “U.S. trading firm” …
Under securities law, a virtual currency may fall under the SEC's remit if Americans buy it to fund a company or project with the expectation of profiting from the efforts of those involved in it. https://blawgo.com/xPVc9Cr
Bloomberg
The SEC sues Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, accusing them of selling unregistered securities and perpetrating a fraudulent scheme that lost $40B+ in market value
Takeaways from SEC complaint Cosmos Ecosystem Chat Newsletter : SEC Charges Do Kwon, Mars on Crescent, Turkey Earthquake Aid Proposal - CEC Issue #25 The Block : U.S. investigation...
2023-02-17
Under securities law, a virtual currency may fall under the SEC's remit if Americans buy it to fund a company or project with the expectation of profiting from the efforts of those involved in it. https://blawgo.com/xPVc9Cr
Bloomberg
The SEC sues Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, accusing them of selling unregistered securities and perpetrating a fraudulent scheme that lost $40B+ in market value
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to sue the company behind TerraUSD, a crypto stablecoin whose collapse …
2023-02-10
Mason Rothschild's loss may have a chilling effect on NFT artists who want to use trademarks in their projects, according to an intellectual property attorney and artist. https://blawgo.com/fy3pcbi
Bloomberg Law
A US jury finds an artist violated Hermès' rights to the Birkin trademark in 2021 by creating and selling MetaBirkin 100 NFTs depicting versions of the handbags
Bloomberg Law :
2023-02-04
Activision has been shrouded in controversy since 2021 when a state agency filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, describing its “frat boy culture” and accusing its leadership of failing to take action. https://blawgo.com/sXn8yQ6
CNBC
Activision Blizzard settles with the SEC for $35M, over claims of violating federal whistleblower protections and not maintaining adequate disclosure standards
Activision Blizzard gave separation agreements to departing employees that the SEC says violated a whistleblower protection rule. They required employees to disclose whether the SE...
2023-01-21
The company alerted law enforcement and has begun notifying customers whose information may have been accessed. https://blawgo.com/DNkN5eM
Bloomberg
SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole the data of ~37M customers, including names, addresses, and phone numbers, but not passwords, SSNs, or credit cards
here's what to do if you're ever worried that your data was leaked Chris Velazco / Washington Post : Here's what to do if you think you're affected by T-Mobile's latest data breach...
2023-01-20
The company alerted law enforcement and has begun notifying customers whose information may have been accessed. https://blawgo.com/DNkN5eM
Bloomberg
SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole the data of ~37M customers, including names, addresses, and phone numbers, but not passwords, SSNs, or credit cards
T-Mobile US Inc. said a hacker obtained data for 37 million customer accounts, though it didn't include payment card information or personal identifying numbers.
2022-12-15
Elon Musk's antics extend the chaos—in the courts, in the media and on Twitter itself—of the seven-month legal battle that resulted in his purchasing the platform for $44 billion, much more than it was reasonably worth. https://blawgo.com/HDbJX9e
Financial Times
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales”
Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
Elon Musk's antics extend the chaos—in the courts, in the media and on Twitter itself—of the seven-month legal battle that resulted in his purchasing the platform for $44 billion, much more than it was reasonably worth. https://blawgo.com/HDbJX9e
Bloomberg
Interviews with dozens of Elon Musk's former employees and partners portray his Twitter as a Shakespearean psychodrama, resulting in something close to disaster
2022-10-21
The lawsuit argues that the process allows Google to capture and store biometric information of any individual featured in images uploaded to the platform, including both users and non-users who had no opportunity to consent to the capture of this data. https://blawgo.com/2qNtfju
Wall Street Journal
Texas' AG sues Google for allegedly using Photos, Assistant, and Nest features to collect facial- and voice-recognition data without seeking users' full consent
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal :
2022-06-09
“These applications could have been designed to minimize potential harm, but instead, a decision was made to aggressively addict adolescents in the name of corporate profits.” https://blawgo.com/SO0jSF6
Bloomberg
Meta faces eight lawsuits this week that claim its algorithms lead to attempted suicide, eating disorders, sleeplessness, and other issues in young people
2022-06-01
The US Federal Trade Commission has revamped its antitrust probe of Amazon, shaking up the investigative team, re-interviewing potential witnesses and asking questions about the company's recent acquisition of MGM Studios. https://blawgo.com/JKHihxk
Bloomberg
Sources: the FTC has revamped its Amazon antitrust probe, shaking up the investigative team, re-interviewing potential witnesses, and asking about the MGM deal
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
2022-04-21
“As we sat back and re-evaluated, what we realized is that we love being at Apple—and leaving Apple, that's not something any of us wants to do. But improving it is something we wanted to do.” https://blawgo.com/pFatVBG
New York Times
70% of employees at an Atlanta Apple Store agree to hold a union election, making the Apple Store the first to file for a union election with the CWA
The petition for a union vote continues a trend of organizing at service-sector employers like Starbucks and Amazon.