A lawsuit filed against Meta in 2022 over its use of facial recognition software has led to, by far, the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single U.S. state.
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Meta is being sued by the New Mexico AG's office on grounds that it did little to nothing to protect teens and preteens. The report notes that Meta is promoting child predators on its platforms.
California's Attorney General is investigating Tesla's Autopilot safety claim advertisements for being false and misleading. He collected customer complaints from FTC filings via the online database.
Google will pay $391.5 million as part of its settlement with 40 U.S. states after it continued to track users' location data even after turning location tracking features off in the settings.
Amazon will have to shut down the Sold by Amazon program for good because Washington state's attorney general found it was anticompetitive and violated antitrust laws. It ran from 2018 to 2020.
Google is getting sued by the Office of the Attorney General in Washington DC, Indiana, Texas, and Washington State for deceiving users about how it handles their location data and profits out of it.
Online retail company Amazon is being investigated for a breach of antitrust law by DC Attorney General Karl Racine. The complaint has been filed due to alleged monopolistic policies for sellers.
The U.S. FTC, along with 48 other attorneys general, has files antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, with an aim to force the firm to sell off WhatsApp and Instagram to restore competition.
Following reports detailing Zoom's vulnerabilities, several state AGs are seeking information from the company. The video conferencing service has become popular in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has rubbished the Attorney General's idea that the U.S. could buy a controlling stake in Nokia and Ericsson to make them more competitive against Huawei.
The U.S. Attorney General has floated the idea that the government could buy a controlling share of Nokia and Ericsson in order to make them more competitive in an effort to muscle Huawei out of 5G.
Attorney General George C. Jepsen has raised his own concerns around the security of health data used by the Apple Watch, suggesting a meeting in which he and Apple can discuss those concerns.
