Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Lawsuit.
Meta no longer has a legal basis to show its users personalized ads. This week, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that the practices violate the GDPR. The ruling sets a precedent for more convictions on data collection by dominant players in the digital world On July 4, amid the celeb... Read more
10 months ago
GitHub, its parent company Microsoft and nonprofit OpenAI are opposing a class action lawsuit by independent developers over possible copyright abuse in GitHub Pilot. According to the three software specialists, the accusation by the independent developers is unjustified. The lawsuit now pendin... Read more
1 year ago
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is taking Google to court. Authorities accuse the tech giant of monopolizing the digital advertising market. According to the DoJ, some of Google's digital ad tools monopolize the US digital ad market, which is prohibited under competition laws. The DoJ says ... Read more
1 year ago
European publishers and advertisers are struggling with the implementation of industry association IAB Europe's new advertising platform. Companies doubt the system's compliance and suspect there's more to the release than meets the eye. Last year, Belgian privacy regulator GBA declared that I... Read more
1 year ago
Meta Platforms, Facebook's parent company, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the social media giant enabled third parties, notably Cambridge Analytica, to obtain users' data. The settlement agreement, revealed in a court filing late Thursday, would end a lo... Read more
1 year ago
Big Blue accused the UK-based company of abusing their partnership to pilfer technology. This week IBM filed suit against Micro Focus, accusing the software company of illegally copying and reverse engineering IBM software in violation of copyright law. In the legal action filed in the Southe... Read more
1 year ago
The lawsuit alleges that Dell Technologies "shortchanged" its shareholders. This week, Dell agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle claims of improperly informing them in 2016, when the company used their shares to finance its $67 billion purchase of EMC. The financing of the acquisition... Read more
1 year ago
GitHub's Copilot has been sued for widespread software piracy in a major lawsuit. The AI tool allegedly violates the licensing rights of developers who publish their software on GitHub under open-source licenses. According to the law firm representing the software developers, Copilot abuses the ... Read more
1 year ago
Splunk has taken its competitor Cribl to court over the illegal use of its source code and other technical secrets. With this, Cribl would like to undermine the data platform specialist's market position. According to Splunk, former employee and current CEO of Cribl Clint Sharp took source code ... Read more
2 years ago
The EDPS, which supervises the data privacy of European institutions, has asked Europe's highest court to overturn regulation changes that allow Europol to retroactively legalize personal data storage on individuals with no ties to criminal activity. The EDPS argues that the changes weaken its auth... Read more
2 years ago
