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AT&T agreed to pay $177 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over 2019 and 2024 data breaches that exposed personal information of more than 110 million customers. More than 4.9 million people filed claims before the December deadline, and the company could still appeal the settlement until November 2.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission has fined Samsung roughly 20.1 billion won (about $15.1 million) over its Game Optimizing Service, which automatically reduced performance in certain popular games on Galaxy S22-era phones to as low as 30% of capacity. The ruling follows an earlier class-action lawsuit brought by South Korean Galaxy owners over the same issue.
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 20 states, filed suit against Dollar General in federal court in Tennessee, alleging the retailer repeatedly charged customers more at checkout than the prices shown on shelf tags and in advertisements. The complaint cites more than 29,000 consumer pricing complaints and says the overcharges cost shoppers millions of dollars despite the company's awareness of the issue.
Ultrahuman issued a statement responding to a fresh lawsuit from Oura that asserts two patents, including one issued just two days before the suit was filed on October 22. The company said the newly asserted claims haven't been reviewed by any court, and that no injunction has been issued against the Ring Pro.
Rights holders to Elvis Presley's music catalog, including Authentic Brands Group and Raleigh Music Publishing, filed suit against Anthropic on October 23rd seeking $41 million in damages. The complaint alleges Anthropic trained its AI models on 274 Presley songs, bypassing DRM protections and stripping copyright management information from 247 tracks including 'Don't Be Cruel' and 'Can't Help Falling in Love.'
Chatbot startup Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, nearly two years after a Florida mother sued the company, its founders and Google, alleging its chatbots contributed to her 14-year-old son's suicide. The platform, once valued at over $1 billion with backing from investors including a16z, had drawn scrutiny for hosting chatbots centered on suicide themes and offering weak safeguards for young users.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for violating the state's Unfair Practices Act by misleading users about its data handling, in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that began in 2021. The penalty follows a jury verdict in Meta's favor for the state in September, and Meta says it will appeal. The company's chief legal officer called the ruling an effective tax on speech that would make doing business in New Mexico unworkable.
A New Mexico judge imposed a $25 billion civil penalty on Meta after a jury found the company committed nearly 44 million violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act. The case stemmed from Meta misleading users about data privacy practices connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal tied to the 2016 presidential election. Meta had sought to cap penalties at $3.45 billion but failed, though the final sum is far below the $219 billion some estimates had floated.
A jury found Meta liable for nearly 44 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection law, and US District Judge Francis J. Mathew imposed a $25 billion penalty, the largest ever levied against the company. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez had rejected an $18 billion multistate settlement Meta reached with other states earlier this year and pursued the case separately, seeking up to $40 billion. Mathew's ruling cites trial evidence that Meta's leadership, including Mark Zuckerberg, knew the company was misleading the public about data control, misinformation and other practices since 2010.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for deceiving users about data privacy practices tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a tech company. The ruling follows a Santa Fe jury finding that Meta committed 43 million violations of state consumer protection law, each carrying a penalty of up to $5,000. State Attorney General Raúl Torrez said the outcome shows no corporation is too powerful to face accountability.
Apple and the Department of Justice have jointly told the court they cannot agree on the cutoff date for documents Apple must produce in the government's monopoly lawsuit. The two sides had set June 20, 2025 as the cutoff when fact discovery was expected to end by July 31, 2026, but that deadline has since been pushed back twice to late May 2027, prompting the DOJ to argue the document cutoff should move too.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection laws, each carrying a $5,000 penalty. The case centered on Meta's handling of the third-party app tied to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, along with its broader data privacy practices and misinformation policies. Meta says it will appeal the ruling.