Category: Legal Law

One way to look at how problematic this is would be to think in terms of a carbon budget. We…

It’s been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data caps, and the docket…

Character.AI could also update chatbots to protect kids further, the lawsuit said. For one, the chatbots could be designed to…

One of them, Rhode Island resident Kathleen Odean, told us that she had several recent conversations with a T-Mobile employee…

“Crystal finds all of this deeply intrusive… Crystal worries about how the Flock Cameras are eroding not just her privacy,…

After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance…

AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months for prepaid users. AT&T…

As for actual speeds in 2024, Starlink’s website says “users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220Mbps, with a…

Vice President Kamala Harris will likely continue Biden’s war on “junk fees” if elected, Reuters reported, and Holyoak claimed that…

In one post on anonymous messaging platform Blind, seen by the Financial Times, one former Meta staffer wrote they had…

Vladeck questioned the ethics of X’s terms in comments quoted by NPR. “For X to say we want all of…

Amazon workers are being reminded that they can find work elsewhere if they’re unhappy with Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate. In…

Because “Caroline’s diagnosis was terminal… an abortion would not have saved her life, only extended it. Florida law would not…

Reuters noted that these child exploitation cases are an early test that could soon reveal how hard it is for…

“After Breton resigned in September, he bequeathed his fining powers to competition and digital boss Margrethe Vestager. Decisions on the…

Following an investigation, Elon Musk’s X has won its fight to avoid gatekeeper status under the European Union’s strict competition…

The motion said the punishment had “a significant, severe, and continuing impact on RNH’s future earning capacity, earning potential, and…

Simington argued that regulating data caps would harm customers, using an analogy about the hypothetical regulation of coffee refills: Suppose…

“The use of artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing reality across many industries,” Schopf wrote. “The mere fact that artificial…

The Federal Communications Commission gave Starlink and T-Mobile emergency authority to provide satellite-to-phone coverage in areas hit by Hurricane Helene.…

The legal saga over Martin Shkreli’s infamous 5,000 percent price hike of a life-saving anti-parasitic drug has ended with a…

We estimate that at least 10,000 accounts like these were active daily on the platform, and that was before X…

Instead of radically altering the threat landscape, OpenAI tools like ChatGPT are mostly used to take shortcuts or save costs,…

Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users…

“Discovery on those topics is inevitable, and there is no reason to further delay,” the executives argued. The executives have…

There has been a rash of iPhone thefts around the US the past few months, conducted by “porch pirates” often…

“The First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter,” the FCC website says. “Our…

Brazil’s Supreme Court is allowing Elon Musk’s X to resume operations, apparently ending a months-long battle after the social network…

“Hampering Google’s AI tools risks holding back American innovation at a critical moment,” Mulholland warned, claiming that AI is still…

Google plans appeal Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney wrote that the injunction “means all app developers, store makers, carriers, and…

Why did the study target X? The University of Michigan research team worried that their experiment posting AI-generated NCII on…

“Going forward, the government will never have to prove it could avoid seriously jeopardizing its investigation by disclosing a warrant…

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems…

“Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce that human expression, he…

“WPE’s nominative uses of those marks to refer to the open-source software platform and plugin used for its clients’ websites…

There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for…

“Had X Corp’s argument been accepted by the Court, it could have set the concerning precedent that a foreign company’s…

“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at…

As a message highlighted above the thread warned YouTube users that there were “longer than normal wait times” for support…

Tina Peters, a former election official in Colorado’s Mesa County who promoted former President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy theories and…

Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday, alleging that the Internet service provider violated copyright…

Enlarge / People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is…

Two Russian citizens arrested for running the pirate e-book site Z-Library have reportedly escaped house arrest in Argentina and vanished…

A court has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Amazon’s Buy Box was rigged to rip off customers seeking…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Elon Musk’s overhaul of the Twitter verification system deceives users and violates the Digital Services Act,…

Getty Images | SOPA Images AT&T today said a breach on a third-party cloud platform exposed the call and text…

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg A federal judge yesterday granted…

After the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary released a report accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)…

Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography Republican lawmakers are fighting a Biden administration attempt to bring cheap broadband service to…

A Spanish youth court has sentenced 15 minors to one year of probation after spreading AI-generated nude images of female…

Enlarge / Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee at the Rayburn…

Getty Images | Diy13 The Federal Communications Commission said it is preparing to block a phone company that carried illegal…

Enlarge / An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on June…

A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that…

Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with the European Union’s strict online competition law,…

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden (C) speaks during a tour of the TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona,…

Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina Khan testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on May 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. Getty…

Just before the Fourth of July holiday, Elon Musk moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he intentionally misled Twitter investors…

Enlarge / Disney+ promotional art for The Fable, an anime series that triggered Animeflix takedown notices. Disney+ Thousands of anime…

OnlyFans’ paywalls make it hard for police to detect child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on the platform, Reuters reported—especially new…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For many artists, it’s a precarious time to post art online. AI image generators keep…

About two years after the country’s digital minister publicly declared a “war on floppy discs,” Japan reportedly stopped using floppy…

Enlarge / ATM at a Patelco Credit Union branch in Dublin, California, on July 23, 2018. Getty Images | Smith…

Getty Images | Kathryn8 The US Supreme Court today agreed to hear a challenge to the Texas law that requires…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used…

Keith Gill—the meme stock influencer known as “Roaring Kitty” and “DeepF—Value” who has rallied millions on X and Reddit behind…

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, in May 2023. Getty Images | NurPhoto The…

Enlarge / Grace Bisch holds a picture of stepson Eddie Bisch who died as a result of an overdose on…

Aurich Lawson In 2017, Kathleen Odean thought she had found the last cell phone plan she would ever need. T-Mobile…

Enlarge / EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said the bloc was looking into practices that could in effect lead to…

Tesla has denied that “any defect in the Autopilot system caused or contributed” to the 2022 death of a Tesla…

The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library’s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices…

Enlarge / Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive for President Joe Biden’s State of…

Enlarge / Ozone-producing chemicals come from a variety of sources and don’t respect state borders. On Tuesday, a slim majority…

Enlarge / A person is holding a package from Temu. Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular…

Enlarge / A Tesla Cybertruck at the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24,…

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by…

Enlarge / A screen shows a virtual meeting with Microsoft Teams at a conference on January 30, 2024 in Barcelona,…

Verizon Wireless agreed to pay a $1,050,000 penalty to the US Treasury and implement a compliance plan because of a…

Getty Images | SOPA Images The European Commission today said it found that Apple is violating the Digital Markets Act…

Enlarge / Michael Jackson in concert, 1986. Sony Music owns a large portion of publishing rights to Jackson’s music. Universal…

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to put a warning label on social media platforms, alerting young users of potential…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Pornhub will soon be blocked in five more states as the adult site continues to…

As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives…

Getty Images | Joe Raedle The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) yesterday rejected AT&T’s request to end its landline phone…

The Biden administration will ban all sales of Kaspersky antivirus software in the US starting in July, according to reporting…

Getty Images | artas A 911 vendor’s malfunctioning firewall caused a statewide outage in the emergency calling system in Massachusetts…

Elon Musk is still frantically pushing to launch X payment services in the US by the end of 2024, Bloomberg…

AT&T is imposing $10 and $20 monthly price hikes on users of older unlimited wireless plans starting in August 2024,…

Meta got hit Tuesday with a lawsuit alleging that the company knowingly overlooks sexist treatment of female employees. That includes…

Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile has agreed to change its advertising for the “Price Lock” guarantee that doesn’t actually…

Adobe prioritized profits while spending years ignoring numerous complaints from users struggling to cancel costly subscriptions without incurring hefty hidden…

Enlarge / The standard Starlink satellite dish. Starlink You can now buy a Starlink satellite dish for $299 (plus shipping…

An Indiana cop has resigned after it was revealed that he frequently used Clearview AI facial recognition technology to track…

Getty Images | NurPhoto Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the…

Getty Images | SOPA Images A group of Tesla investors yesterday sued Elon Musk, the company, and its board members,…

Meta has apparently paused plans to process mounds of user data to bring new AI experiences to Europe. The decision…

Enlarge / Brad Smith, vice chairman and president of Microsoft, is sworn in before testifying about Microsoft’s cybersecurity work during…

Getty Images | Bloomberg Tesla shareholders have re-approved CEO Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package, the company announced today. “Our…

Enlarge / RTO mandates can boost workers’ professional networks, but in-office employees may also spend more time socializing than remote…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Elon Musk’s X Corp. is reportedly demanding money from at least six Australians who were…

Enlarge / T-Mobile logo above the Deutsche Telekom pavilion at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28,…

Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it “abundantly clear” that the company will “never” train…

Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image…

Internet service providers are again urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose new fees on Big Tech firms and use…

Australia’s safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000 daily fines for failing…

After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey…

The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt Meta’s plan…

Getty Images | Justin Sullivan Google has achieved its goal of avoiding a jury trial in one antitrust case after…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks onstage at SXSW on March 11, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images | Diego Donamaria…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission wants to verify that Internet service providers are strengthening their networks…

Enlarge / Nvidia logo at Impact 2024 event in Poznan, Poland on May 16, 2024. Getty Images | NurPhoto The…

Enlarge / T-Mobile logo exhibited during Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | NurPhoto…

Getty Images | NurPhoto / Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of their Canadian revenue…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino As expected, broadband industry lobby groups have sued the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt…

Enlarge / Keith Gill, known on Reddit under the pseudonym DeepFuckingValue and as Roaring Kitty, is seen on a fragment…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Adult content has always proliferated on Twitter, but the platform now called X recently clarified…

Enlarge / Is this an aspirational image for mass shooters? The families of multiple victims of the 2022 mass shooting…

The New York Times is fighting to take down a game called Worldle, according to a legal filing viewed by…

TikTok is now disputing a Reuters report that claims the short-video app is cloning its algorithm to potentially offer a…

After months of loudly protesting a subpoena, Elon Musk has once again agreed to testify in the US Securities and…

YouTube’s Content ID system—which automatically detects content registered by rightsholders—is “completely fucking broken,” a YouTuber called “Albino” declared in a…

Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit targeting the tech giant’s…

Google needs to pump the brakes when it comes to tracking sensitive information shared with DMV sites, a new lawsuit…

Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books or risk…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Cities and towns that build their own broadband networks often say they only considered the…

Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty A Tesla shareholder group yesterday urged other shareholders to vote against Elon Musk’s…

This June, approximately 150 motorcycles will thunder down Route 9W in Saugerties, New York, for Ryan’s Ride for Recovery. Organized…

Enlarge / Ticketmaster advertisements in the United States v. South Africa women’s soccer match at Soldier Field on September 24,…

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Former and current OpenAI employees received a memo this week that the AI company…

Last week, the Biden administration announced it would levy dramatic new tariffs on electric vehicles, electric vehicle batteries, and battery…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to…

Enlarge / President Joe Biden at a Rose Garden event at the White House on May 1, 2023, in Washington,…

Enlarge / Scarlett Johansson attends the Golden Heart Awards in 2023. OpenAI is sticking to its story that it never…

Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018. T-Mobile today is notifying customers…

Enlarge / US Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), right, speaks as House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) looks…

Last week, Google sent a cashier’s check to the US government that it claimed in a court filing covers “every…

The US Department of Justice has started cracking down on the use of AI image generators to produce child sexual…

ullstein bild / Getty Images News Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an…

Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in downtown San Francisco on Bush and Sansome Streets as it drives and transports…

The US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive allegedly bribed a powerful state lawmaker’s ally…

Getty Images | Chesnot Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough…

Getty Images | SOPA Images A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging that it committed…

After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose security breaches within 30 days of learning…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Twitter.com links are now redirecting to the x.com domain as Elon Musk gets closer to…

Enlarge / Screenshot from the documentary Who Is Bobby Kennedy? In a lawsuit that seems determined to ignore that Section…

For the past decade, the dating app Bumble has claimed to be all about empowering women. But under a new…

Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated brothers allegedly stole $25 million by tampering with the ethereum blockchain in a…

Enlarge / Relatives hold a poster with faces of the victims of Ethiopia flight 302 outside a courthouse in Fort…

After backlash over Google’s search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn websites, Google has started burying these…

Microsoft Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals…

Getty Images | Joe Raedle AT&T’s application to end its landline phone obligations in California is likely to be rejected…

An Australian federal court sided with Elon Musk on Monday, rejecting an Australian safety regulator’s request to extend a temporary…

Getty Images | Chesnot TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the “Foreign Adversary Controlled…

Enlarge / Ripton, VT – July 16, 2023: Ethan Poploski stood in front of his family’s home, which had been…

Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile is reportedly close to buying a portion of the regional carrier US Cellular, while…

Verizon T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the…

A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused…

Enlarge / WETA “Gollum” figure at Arclight at the opening of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to “look for ways” to conduct…

themotioncloud/Getty Images Ethan Zuckerman wants to release a tool that would allow Facebook users to control what appears in their…

Getty Images | nadla The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of fast lanes.…

Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from the Internet,…

As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic…

Continuing its crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may potentially sue Robinhood Markets over securities violations…

Getty Images | NurPhoto The US government has pressured telcos to rip out network gear made by Chinese companies Huawei…

Getty Images | Chesnot The European Commission today accused Meta of violating rules related to deceptive advertising, political content, and…

Razer The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week a proposed settlement [PDF] against Razer that would see the tech…

Enlarge / Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle for sentencing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.…

Getty Images | PA Thompson The US Supreme Court yesterday denied a request to block a Texas law that requires…

Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev Google urged a federal court to reject Epic Games’ request for an injunction that would…

Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, exits federal court in Washington, DC, on September 20,…

“Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group…

Getty Images | Bloomberg AT&T is now charging mobile customers an extra $7 per month for faster wireless data speeds.…

In mid-June 2019, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella received a rude awakening in an email warning that…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Telecom provider CenturyLink left a couple in Oregon without landline phone service for two months,…

Enlarge / Medical marijuana growing in a facility in Canada. The US Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to reclassify marijuana…

Getty Images | SOPA Images The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196 million “for…

On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board that…

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Getty Images…

Getty Images | eccolo74 The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups sued the Federal Trade Commission and FTC…

FT/Getty Images TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to…

Getty Images | NurPhoto TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed…

Discord Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages…

Getty Images | Creativeye99 A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law…

Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of rules that target pollution from fossil fuel power plants. In…

Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules in December…

On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with using AI…

On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court…

Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel Grindr is facing a class action lawsuit from hundreds of users over the sharing of…

Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan talks with guests during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building…

Aurich Lawson / Getty For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence, spotting new…

Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Congress passed and President Biden signed a reauthorization of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence…

TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to ban the…

A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice’s first case involving cryptocurrency open-market manipulation, the…

Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Apple said it…