1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (445+ words) Last week, FedEx sued the federal government to recover the money it had paid in tariffs. The suit is one of at least two federal lawsuits " the other is against EssilorLuxottica, which makes Ray-Ban sunglasses " aiming to make sure consumers…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (405+ words) Apple asked a federal judge Thursday (Feb. 26) to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the company defrauded shareholders, Reuters reported Thursday. The plaintiff alleges that Apple overstated its progress in adding artificial intelligence features to its voice assistant…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (440+ words) Meta is suing advertisers who have allegedly impersonated celebrities to defraud consumers. The tech giant announced Thursday (Feb. 26) that it had taken "technical enforcement actions" against the accused scammers, such as suspending their payment methods, blocking the domain names for…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (344+ words) A U.K. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday (Feb. 26) that two lawsuits alleging that Amazon abused its dominant position in the market can proceed, according to updates posted by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Amazon had asked the court to throw out the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (94+ words) Online Consumer Protection: Some Perspectives from Law and Economics'PYMNTS.com This essay traces the evolution of online consumer protection from the opening of the Internet to commerce in the mid-1990s through to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, arguing that trust…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (97+ words) Children's Privacy and App Store Accountability: The Risks of Knowing Too Much'PYMNTS.com Children's privacy and online protections have taken center stage among legislators and regulators worldwide. In the United States, states are rapidly scaling up regulation of children's privacy…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (366+ words) Criminals are using artificial intelligence in combination with websites, social media and other tools to carry out scams and other malicious operations, OpenAI said Wednesday (Feb. 25) in its latest threat report. One of the latest threats the company disrupted involved…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (407+ words) Customer data allegedly stolen from car shopping site CarGurus was posted by a hacking group, according to multiple media reports. Bleeping Computer reported Tuesday (Feb. 24) that an extortion group called ShinyHunters claimed Saturday (Feb. 21) that it had 12.4 million records from…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (754+ words) California officials asked a state court on Tuesday to block Amazon.com from what they describe as a long-running effort to keep retail prices artificially high by pressuring merchants not to offer goods more cheaply on competing platforms. According to…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (374+ words) Deckers Outdoor Corp., the parent company behind Ugg footwear, is facing a new antitrust lawsuit that accuses the company of operating what its rival describes as a "legal assembly line" designed to churn out baseless trade dress claims in order…...