Category: Legal Law

A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that…

Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with the European Union’s strict online competition law,…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden (C) speaks during a tour of the TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona,…

Enlarge / Disney+ promotional art for The Fable, an anime series that triggered Animeflix takedown notices. Disney+ Thousands of anime…

Just before the Fourth of July holiday, Elon Musk moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he intentionally misled Twitter investors…

Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina Khan testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on May 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty…

OnlyFans’ paywalls make it hard for police to detect child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on the platform, Reuters reported—especially new…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For many artists, it’s a precarious time to post art online. AI image generators keep…

About two years after the country’s digital minister publicly declared a “war on floppy discs,” Japan reportedly stopped using floppy…

Enlarge / ATM at a Patelco Credit Union branch in Dublin, California, on July 23, 2018. Getty Images | Smith…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used…

Getty Images | Kathryn8 The US Supreme Court today agreed to hear a challenge to the Texas law that requires…

Keith Gill—the meme stock influencer known as “Roaring Kitty” and “DeepF—Value” who has rallied millions on X and Reddit behind…

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto The…

Enlarge / Grace Bisch holds a picture of stepson Eddie Bisch who died as a result of an overdose on…

Aurich Lawson In 2017, Kathleen Odean thought she had found the last cell phone plan she would ever need. T-Mobile…

Tesla has denied that “any defect in the Autopilot system caused or contributed” to the 2022 death of a Tesla…

Enlarge / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive for President Joe Biden’s State of…

The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library’s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices…

Enlarge / EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said the bloc was looking into practices that could in effect lead to…

Enlarge / Ozone-producing chemicals come from a variety of sources and don’t respect state borders. On Tuesday, a slim majority…

Enlarge / A person is holding a package from Temu. Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular…

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by…

Enlarge / A Tesla Cybertruck at the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24,…

Verizon Wireless agreed to pay a $1,050,000 penalty to the US Treasury and implement a compliance plan because of a…

Enlarge / A screen shows a virtual meeting with Microsoft Teams at a conference on January 30, 2024 in Barcelona,…

Enlarge / Michael Jackson in concert, 1986. Sony Music owns a large portion of publishing rights to Jackson’s music. Universal…

Getty Images | SOPA Images The European Commission today said it found that Apple is violating the Digital Markets Act…

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to put a warning label on social media platforms, alerting young users of potential…

Adobe prioritized profits while spending years ignoring numerous complaints from users struggling to cancel costly subscriptions without incurring hefty hidden…

Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile has agreed to change its advertising for the “Price Lock” guarantee that doesn’t actually…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Pornhub will soon be blocked in five more states as the adult site continues to…

As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives…

Getty Images | Joe Raedle The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) yesterday rejected AT&T’s request to end its landline phone…

The Biden administration will ban all sales of Kaspersky antivirus software in the US starting in July, according to reporting…

Getty Images | artas A 911 vendor’s malfunctioning firewall caused a statewide outage in the emergency calling system in Massachusetts…

Elon Musk is still frantically pushing to launch X payment services in the US by the end of 2024, Bloomberg…

AT&T is imposing $10 and $20 monthly price hikes on users of older unlimited wireless plans starting in August 2024,…

Meta got hit Tuesday with a lawsuit alleging that the company knowingly overlooks sexist treatment of female employees. That includes…

Enlarge / Brad Smith, vice chairman and president of Microsoft, is sworn in before testifying about Microsoft’s cybersecurity work during…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the…

Getty Images | SOPA Images A group of Tesla investors yesterday sued Elon Musk, the company, and its board members,…

Meta has apparently paused plans to process mounds of user data to bring new AI experiences to Europe. The decision…

Getty Images | Bloomberg Tesla shareholders have re-approved CEO Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package, the company announced today. “Our…

Enlarge / RTO mandates can boost workers’ professional networks, but in-office employees may also spend more time socializing than remote…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Elon Musk’s X Corp. is reportedly demanding money from at least six Australians who were…

Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it “abundantly clear” that the company will “never” train…

Enlarge / T-Mobile logo above the Deutsche Telekom pavilion at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28,…

Internet service providers are again urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose new fees on Big Tech firms and use…

Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image…

Australia’s safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000 daily fines for failing…

Getty Images | NurPhoto / Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of their Canadian revenue…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into whether Nvidia, Microsoft, and…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks onstage at SXSW on March 11, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images | Diego Donamaria…

Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Google has achieved its goal of avoiding a jury trial in one antitrust case after…

The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt Meta’s plan…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission wants to verify that Internet service providers are strengthening their networks…

After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey…

Enlarge / T-Mobile logo exhibited during Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | NurPhoto…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino As expected, broadband industry lobby groups have sued the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt…

Enlarge / Keith Gill, known on Reddit under the pseudonym DeepFuckingValue and as Roaring Kitty, is seen on a fragment…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Adult content has always proliferated on Twitter, but the platform now called X recently clarified…

This June, approximately 150 motorcycles will thunder down Route 9W in Saugerties, New York, for Ryan’s Ride for Recovery. Organized…

Enlarge / Ticketmaster advertisements in the United States v. South Africa women’s soccer match at Soldier Field on September 24,…

Enlarge / Scarlett Johansson attends the Golden Heart Awards in 2023. OpenAI is sticking to its story that it never…

Enlarge / Is this an aspirational image for mass shooters? The families of multiple victims of the 2022 mass shooting…

The New York Times is fighting to take down a game called Worldle, according to a legal filing viewed by…

TikTok is now disputing a Reuters report that claims the short-video app is cloning its algorithm to potentially offer a…

YouTube’s Content ID system—which automatically detects content registered by rightsholders—is “completely fucking broken,” a YouTuber called “Albino” declared in a…

After months of loudly protesting a subpoena, Elon Musk has once again agreed to testify in the US Securities and…

Google needs to pump the brakes when it comes to tracking sensitive information shared with DMV sites, a new lawsuit…

Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit targeting the tech giant’s…

Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023, in Washington,…

Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books or risk…

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Former and current OpenAI employees received a memo this week that the AI company…

Last week, the Biden administration announced it would levy dramatic new tariffs on electric vehicles, electric vehicle batteries, and battery…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to…

Enlarge / US Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), right, speaks as House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) looks…

Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. T-Mobile today is notifying customers…

Last week, Google sent a cashier’s check to the US government that it claimed in a court filing covers “every…

Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty A Tesla shareholder group yesterday urged other shareholders to vote against Elon Musk’s…

ullstein bild / Getty Images News Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an…

Enlarge / Craig Wright arrives at a courthouse in London, England, on February 23, 2024. Getty Images | Lucy North-PA…

Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in downtown San Francisco on Bush and Sansome Streets as it drives and transports…

Getty Images | Chesnot Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough…

For the past decade, the dating app Bumble has claimed to be all about empowering women. But under a new…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Twitter.com links are now redirecting to the x.com domain as Elon Musk gets closer to…

After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose security breaches within 30 days of learning…

Getty Images | SOPA Images A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging that it committed…

Enlarge / Screenshot from the documentary Who Is Bobby Kennedy? In a lawsuit that seems determined to ignore that Section…

Enlarge / Relatives hold a poster with faces of the victims of Ethiopia flight 302 outside a courthouse in Fort…

Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated brothers allegedly stole $25 million by tampering with the ethereum blockchain in a…

After backlash over Google’s search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn websites, Google has started burying these…

The US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive allegedly bribed a powerful state lawmaker’s ally…

An Australian federal court sided with Elon Musk on Monday, rejecting an Australian safety regulator’s request to extend a temporary…

Getty Images | Joe Raedle AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is likely to be rejected…

Enlarge / An American Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner preparing to take off at Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Spain on May…

themotioncloud/Getty Images Ethan Zuckerman wants to release a tool that would allow Facebook users to control what appears in their…

Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile is reportedly close to buying a portion of the regional carrier US Cellular, while…

Enlarge / WETA “Gollum” figure at Arclight at the opening of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the…

A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused…

Verizon T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the…

Enlarge / Ripton, VT – July 16, 2023: Ethan Poploski stood in front of his family’s home, which had been…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to “look for ways” to conduct…

Getty Images | Chesnot TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the “Foreign Adversary Controlled…

Getty Images | nadla The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of fast lanes.…

As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic…

Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from the Internet,…

Continuing its crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may potentially sue Robinhood Markets over securities violations…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US government has pressured telcos to rip out network gear made by Chinese companies Huawei…

Enlarge / Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle for sentencing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Telecom provider CenturyLink left a couple in Oregon without landline phone service for two months,…

Getty Images | PA Thompson The US Supreme Court yesterday denied a request to block a Texas law that requires…

“Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group…

Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, exits federal court in Washington, DC, on September 20,…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Google urged a federal court to reject Epic Games’ request for an injunction that would…

Getty Images | Bloomberg AT&T is now charging mobile customers an extra $7 per month for faster wireless data speeds.…

Enlarge / John Schmidtlein, partner at Williams & Connolly LLP and lead litigator for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, arrives to federal…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money…

In mid-June 2019, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella received a rude awakening in an email warning that…

Enlarge / Medical marijuana growing in a facility in Canada. The US Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to reclassify marijuana…

Razer The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week a proposed settlement [PDF] against Razer that would see the tech…

On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board that…

Enlarge / A group of Black Friday online shopping purchases photographed in delivery boxes filled with polystyrene packing pellets, taken…

Getty Images | eccolo74 The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups sued the Federal Trade Commission and FTC…

FT/Getty Images TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to…

Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of rules that target pollution from fossil fuel power plants. In…

Getty Images | NurPhoto TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed…

Getty Images | Creativeye99 A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law…

Discord Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages…

On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with using AI…

Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules in December…

On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court…

Getty Images | Chesnot The Senate last night approved a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company…

Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan talks with guests during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building…

Aurich Lawson / Getty For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence, spotting new…

TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to ban the…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Congress passed and President Biden signed a reauthorization of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence…

A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice’s first case involving cryptocurrency open-market manipulation, the…

Enlarge / A cropped image showing Raw TV’s poster for the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did, which features a long…

Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Apple said it…

On Wednesday, Colorado expanded the scope of its privacy law initially designed to protect biometric data like fingerprints or face…

The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced its leadership team after…

Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an opening event for Tesla’s Gigafactory on March 22, 2022, in Gruenheide, southeast…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will allow harmful…

Meta continues to slowly adapt Facebook and Instagram policies to account for increasing AI harms, this week confronting how it…

A 28-year-old Delaware woman, Hadja Kone, was arrested after cops linked her to an international sextortion scheme targeting thousands of…

Enlarge / Divi Divi trees on a sandy beach in Aruba. Aruba has long been a special place for Stacy…

Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in England. Getty Images |…

Enlarge / An oil refinery in Louisiana. Facilities such as this have led to a proliferation of petrochemical plants in…

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has finalized rules for handling water supplies that are contaminated by a…

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg Elon Musk’s clumsy brand shift…

Epic Games has filed a proposed injunction that would stop Google from restricting third-party app distribution outside Google Play Store…

X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously, a blue…

Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models’ training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that…

A board member of Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, has been accused of hacking one of…

Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Enlarge / A sample consumer label for home Internet service. FCC Starting today, home Internet…

Enlarge / Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin speaks onstage during CinemaCon, a convention of the National Association of Theatre…

After Elon Musk was accused of defaming Ben Brody—a 22-year-old Jewish man falsely linked to a neo-Nazi brawl in tweets…

Enlarge / Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing…

Getty Images | BernardaSv The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting…

Enlarge / The TSMC facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The US Department of Commerce has proposed another round of CHIPS Act…

Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel at a spectrum policy event at the National Press Club on Monday, September 19,…

Google has sued two app developers based in China over an alleged scheme targeting 100,000 users globally over four years…

For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it launched in…

The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the app may…

Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography California can keep enforcing its state net neutrality law after the Federal Communications Commission…

On Friday, Meta announced policy updates to stop censoring harmless AI-generated content and instead begin “labeling a wider range of…

Getty Images | Nathan Stirk Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson yesterday issued a statement debunking claims of widespread voter…

Enlarge / Chicago City Wire is a hyper-partisan website masquerading as an outlet that does journalism. FT Montage The number…

A high-level Iowa hospital systems administrator, Matthew Kierans, has admitted to stealing a coworker’s identity and posing as William Donald…

X has named a new head of safety about nine months after Ella Irwin resigned last June, following Elon Musk’s…

Ever since Elon Musk’s X Corp sued Media Matters for America (MMFA) over a pair of reports that X (formerly…

Getty Images | VIEW press AT&T reset passcodes for millions of customers after acknowledging a massive leak involving the data…

To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome’s “Incognito” mode, Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users’…

Getty Images | Dan Kitwood A US judge has struck down a lawsuit brought by X against a nonprofit group…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey yesterday sued Media Matters in an attempt to protect Elon Musk…

Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called “Ghostbusters,” designed to sneakily access encrypted…

Getty Images | Charles O’Rear Two lawsuits filed by a civil rights group allege that county jails in Michigan banned…

Enlarge / Has a government employee checked all those zeroes and ones floating above the skyline? If you follow generative…

After backlash, the cloud provider Vultr has updated its terms to remove a clause that a Reddit user feared required…

The White House has announced the “first government-wide policy to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits.”…

Enlarge / FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at US District Court on March 30, 2023, in New York City after…

Enlarge / A Starlink user terminal during winter. Getty Images | AntaresNS Starlink’s mobile ambitions were dealt at least a…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images This week, Florida made headlines after passing HB 3, a law banning children under 14…

Enlarge / Demonstrators participate in an abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court hear oral…

On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears…

peterschreiber.media | Getty Images The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking or attempting…

Aurich Lawson | NurPhoto / Getty Images X used to be called Twitter, but soon it will become “the Everything…

Google has agreed to pay 250 million euros (about $273 million) to settle a dispute in France after breaching years-old…

Enlarge / FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (R) departs Manhattan Federal Court after an arraignment hearing on March 30, 2023, in…

Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political content by…

Enlarge / Steve Huffman, u/spez on Reddit, sold 500,000 of his shares in Reddit’s IPO on Thursday AFP via Getty…

Enlarge / “Yes, we offer Internet at your address.” An Internet service provider that admitted lying to the Federal Communications…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today’s antitrust lawsuit against…

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt…

iStock/Getty Images X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a…