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Meta Must Face Massachusetts Youth Addiction Lawsuit (2)
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (478+ words) Meta Platforms Inc. isn't immune from claims it designed Instagram to addict youth, Massachusetts high court said Friday, rejecting the Facebook parent's invocation of a federal legal shield to block the lawsuit. The Supreme Judicial Court said Friday in a…...
NBCUniversal Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Trackers on Website
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (225+ words) Bloomberg Law News A California resident sued NBCUniversal Media LLC claiming the company violated privacy laws by allowing third-party trackers to intercept his web browsing data without consent. Austin White alleged that NBC embedded tracking technologies from Google LLC, Taboola…...
Maine Weighs First-in-Nation Pause on Data Center Construction
1+ week, 4+ day ago (65+ words) Maine is moving forward with legislation to pause large data center development in what would be a first of its kind state-level freeze in the US. Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:...
Data Broker Rules from Regulators May Catch Businesses Off Guard
1+ week, 4+ day ago (411+ words) Recent legislative amendments and rulemaking have resulted in more companies qualifying as "data brokers," expanding that term to reach companies that haven't traditionally viewed themselves as operating in the data industry. The new legislation and regulations now cover activities beyond…...
Christian Mingle, JDate Owner Brings German Insolvency to US
1+ week, 5+ day ago (92+ words) Bloomberg Law News Spark Networks Services Gmb H, the operator of online dating platforms Christian Mingle, JDate, and Zoosk, is seeking US bankruptcy court recognition of its German insolvency case. The company filed its US case after a failed restructuring…...
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1+ week, 6+ day ago (11+ words) Tik Tok Fends Off Digital Media Personalization Patent on Appeal'Bloomberg Law News...
Social Media Jury Verdicts Ignite Internet Free Speech Debates
1+ week, 6+ day ago (93+ words) news. bloomberglaw. com An unlikely coalition of advocates opposing the wave of Big Tobacco-style litigation targeting social media companies over youth addiction is speaking out against a pair of landmark jury verdicts that last week found internet platforms legally responsible…...
Meta Hit With Consumer Suit Over Access to Whats App Messages (1)
2+ week, 3+ day ago (70+ words) Bloomberg Law News Meta Platforms Inc. is facing a consumer lawsuit alleging the technology company illegally intercepted, read, and stored the personal messages of users of its Whats App platform in violation of promises that only the sender and the…...
Sirius XM Defeats Fraunhofer Patent Suit as Delay Dooms Claims
2+ week, 4+ day ago (56+ words) Bloomberg Law News Sirius XM Radio Inc. beat a remanded patent suit over its high-band satellite radio system after a federal judge ruled a German research group's years-long silence sank its infringement claims. Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log…...
Meta, Google Found Liable in Social Media Addiction Case (2)
2+ week, 5+ day ago (387+ words) Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies social media platforms caused her to suffer a mental health crisis, a jury…...