1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (272+ words) Travis County District Court Judge Cory Liu said in the ruling that Attorney General Ken Paxton proved TikTok violated the Deceptive Trade Practices Act in two ways. One of Paxton's theories, which was accepted by Liu, was that TikTok claimed…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (465+ words) Google, Meta and TikTok on Thursday pressed a federal appeals court to block enforcement of a California law prohibiting the companies from algorithmically recommending posts to minors under 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian. The companies contend that…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (397+ words) In a defeat for Amazon, a federal appellate court on Thursday rejected the company's most recent bid to prohibit Perplexity from shopping on Amazon.com on users' behalf. The move left in place a ruling issued last month by a…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (458+ words) Siding against Yelp, the Texas Supreme Court this week rejected the company's request to review a lower-court ruling that reinstated Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit over warning labels the review site placed on "crisis pregnancy centers." The court did not…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (292+ words) Last month WPP “whistleblower” Richard Foster submitted evidence in his wrongful termination suit against the company of a previously undisclosed investigation by client Sony that concluded WPP pocketed $350 million in media rebates in China belonging to clients. A week later…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (465+ words) Siding with LinkedIn, a federal judge has dismissed two class-action complaints alleging that the company scans users' browsers to learn which extensions have been installed. In a three-page ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in the Northern District…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (306+ words) Michaels, the national art supplies and crafts chain, is the latest corporate victim of the Washington state class-action lawsuit mania. An individual named Cameron Crow filed suit against the retailer, alleging that its marketing emails violate the Washington Commercial Electronic…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (305+ words) "Netflix profited while deceiving Floridians and must be held accountable," state Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday in a post on X. "Netflix's years-long bait-and-switch has led the company right to where it promised never to be: addicting children and families…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (452+ words) California is urging a federal appeals court to reject Google's and Meta's most recent push to block enforcement of a law prohibiting social platforms from algorithmically recommending posts to minors under 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian. In…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (484+ words) Following Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement for exploiting children on its social-media platforms, the tech giant is being accused of running ads including child sexual abuse material (CSAM) -- some of which featured real children -- according to a report from Wired. Last month,…...