US Court of Appeals rules against effort to restore net neutrality
Net neutrality may have hit its final roadblock. In a new decision filed today, the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals has ruled that the FCC...
Apple agrees to settle a 2019 Siri privacy lawsuit for $95 million
Apple has moved to settle a five-year-old class action lawsuit over Siri privacy. Reuters reports that the proposed settlement was filed on Tuesday in Oakland, CA....
US labor board accuses Apple of violating employees’ rights
Apple has been in hot water with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since 2022 when the company was accused of union-busting. It agreed to review...
Social media companies can’t be forced to block teens from seeing ‘harmful’ content, judge rules
A federal judge has ruled that social media companies can’t be required to block certain types of content from teens. The ruling will prevent some aspects...
Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil’s X ban
After the country’s Supreme Court ordered internet service providers to block access to X, the platform was largely unavailable in the country by Sunday night. The...
Brazil bans X for refusing to comply with Supreme Court order
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the nation’s internet service providers to block the social media platform X. The New York Times reports...
Judge denies Media Matters’ motion to dismiss X’s not-libel lawsuit
A Texas judge denied Media Matters for America’s request for a dismissal on Thursday allowing X’s lawsuit over alleged anti-semitic and racist content. The Verge reported...
The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws
The US Department of Justice is suing TikTok for violating a child privacy law and violating a 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for previous...
Apple is fighting Tencent and ByteDance over in-app payments in China
Apple has been pressuring ByteDance and Tencent to close loopholes in China that funnel customers to external payment systems for making in-app purchases, according to a...
AI startup argues scraping every song on the internet is ‘fair use’
When most tech companies are challenged with a lawsuit, the expected defense is to deny wrongdoing. To give a reasonable explanation of why the business’ actions...