Woolworths pays the Australian Communications and Media Authority $1 million fine for spam marketing emails
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Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers
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Internet service provider Optus has been ordered to hand over the details of a customer accused of defaming a Melbourne dentist through a Google review
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
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SoftBank-owned patent troll sues to block COVID-19 tests, using monkey selfie law firm and Theranos patents
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Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas.
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Arrest warrant issued in the Philippines for Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, under cyberlibel charges brought by the site's current owner
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Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules
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Australian Federal Court orders Google to turn over identifying information of user who left negative review for Melbourne dentist
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DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers
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An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state)
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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
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The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD
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YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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US jury finds that Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vern Unsworth when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet
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The Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in the long-running copyright/API dispute with Oracle
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Viacom sues YouTube for a billion dollars | YouTube Geographic
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The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
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Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system
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The US court allowed the Federal Communications Commission to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls
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Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life
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Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws
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Apple files lawsuit against virtualization company Corellium for selling ‘perfect replicas’ of iOS
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The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
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In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
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How Pornhub and Girls Do Porn are enabling doxing and harassment
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Google faces contempt charge for failing to remove defamatory reviews
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You can sue media companies over Facebook comments from readers, Australian court rules
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In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
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San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes
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InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement
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Facebook's Zuckerberg and Sandberg will disregard subpoenas to appear in front of Canada-hosted International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy
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On exercising your rights in privacy policies
@swipp_it: 1/ So, I guess my new "hobby" over the past few years has become reading terms of service/privacy policies for things I want to use and then trying to enforce my rights as laid out in those policies. Unsurprisingly, companies are often not certain how to respond to this.
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Jeremy was fired for refusing fingerprinting at work. His case led to an 'extraordinary' unfair dismissal ruling.
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Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
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Adobe warns customers of potential legal action for using older versions of Creative Cloud apps
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Judge rejects Musk’s arguments to dismiss “pedo guy” defamation suit
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Facebook's email-harvesting practice is under investigation in NY
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Julian Assange's prosecution is about much more than attempting to hack a password
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Apple and Qualcomm settle all disputes worldwide
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Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
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Tesla investors sue to stop Elon Musk's 'unchecked' use of Twitter
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Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
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Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared
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