August 24, 2022 Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) senior fellow Johnny Ryan is suing the tech giant Oracle for tracking and monitoring people. The lawsuit was filed in California and is jointly led by two U.S. privacy more...
August 23, 2022 The FTC has taken action against Weber, alleging that third-party parts and repairs violate user warranties, and, as part of its right-to-repair push, the agency also demanded that Harley Davidson and Westinghouse stop waiving customer more...
August 19, 2022 Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia for retweeting activists on her Twitter account and sharing posts advocating women's right to drive. After returning to Saudi Arabia for a holiday, more...
August 19, 2022 Facebook's parent company Meta announced plans on Wednesday to introduce a ban on political ads the week before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, after making a similar decision during the 2020 presidential election. Meta said more...
August 18, 2022 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has indicted three people who illegally tipped and traded Equifax securities before the company disclosed a massive data breach. The charged individuals include Ann Dishinger, Lawrence Palmer and Jerrold more...
August 18, 2022 The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday issued additional guidelines for banks considering activities involving cryptocurrencies. The guidelines warned that banks must ensure that they have systems in place beforehand to ensure that volatile assets do more...
August 17, 2022 U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has approved Apple's $30.5 million settlement. The settlement covers a class-action lawsuit from 2013 in which Apple was accused of short-changing 15,000 retail workers by not paying more...
August 15, 2022 Civil and voting rights experts have criticized Twitter's decision to fight the spread of misinformation in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. Civil rights and online misinformation experts say Twitter and other technology platforms are not more...
August 11, 2022 President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the CHIPS ACT, which provides US$52.7 billion in subsidies for semiconductor production and research in the United States. The bill will also boost efforts to increase U.S. competitiveness vis-à-vis more...
August 9, 2022 According to a court filing, Meta has agreed to delay completion of the Within Unlimited deal, a virtual reality (VR) media and technology company that develops advanced technologies for storytelling in immersive media. In a more...
