Denuvo has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against an unidentified hacker known as 'voices38,' accusing them of circumventing its Anti-Tamper protection in at least 26 titles, including Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, Resident Evil Requiem, and Doom: The Dark Ages. Since Denuvo doesn't hold copyrights to these games, the suit relies on the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules rather than copyright infringement claims, seeking damages and an injunction against further tampering.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-16
A plaintiff calling himself Matthew Schneider sued private torrent trackers including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet and HDBits, claiming they infringed his copyrighted films while seeking to unmask their operators via Cloudflare. The real filmmaker who made the cited films swore he had no connection to the case, and after being pressed to explain, the plaintiff voluntarily dropped the lawsuit rather than clarify the discrepancy.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-15
A proposed class action filed by families in Illinois and California accuses Meta of harvesting biometric data from Facebook and Instagram photos to build a facial recognition system tied to its smart glasses, reportedly called 'NameTag.' The suit follows earlier reporting that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition code into the devices despite public denials that such a feature was planned. Meta has called the lawsuit meritless, saying no product has shipped and no final decision on the feature has been made.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-15
Plaintiffs in Illinois and California have filed a class action lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company intends to incorporate facial recognition technology into its smart glasses products. The suit centers on privacy concerns tied to biometric data collection without proper consent.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-14
Sony has received preliminary court approval for a $7.85 million settlement in the Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment class-action lawsuit, which accused the company of monopolizing digital game sales by killing off vouchers that let PlayStation owners buy games from rival retailers. Eligible US PlayStation customers can now file claims through a live settlement website ahead of a final approval hearing set for Oct. 15.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-13
Sony Music and Warner have filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company scraped and used their song catalogs without permission to train its models. This follows a similar suit from Universal Music Group in January, meaning all three major music publishers are now pursuing legal action against Anthropic.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-11
Florida has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the streaming company misled subscribers about its privacy practices while secretly gathering detailed data on users' devices, locations and viewing habits. The suit contends this tracking extended to children and families who were unaware of the extent of the surveillance.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-11
Four California consumers filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment in federal court, claiming the PlayStation Store misleads shoppers by using ownership terms like 'Buy Now' and 'Confirm Purchase' for digital games that are actually only licensed, revocable access. They say the license disclaimer appears in small, unhighlighted text that fails to meet California's disclosure requirements for digital goods. Sony has since asked the court to force individual arbitration or dismiss the case, arguing no reasonable consumer would think they truly own a digital game.
consumerrights.wiki
· 2026-09-10
Four women who worked at Amazon warehouses in New York filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging the company refused basic pregnancy accommodations such as bathroom breaks, extra rest time, and permission to sit instead of stand. They say Amazon punished them for taking medically necessary breaks by depleting their unpaid time off, eventually leading to their termination between April 2025 and July 2026. Amazon disputes the claims, saying the lawsuit contains inaccuracies and that it complies with federal pregnancy accommodation law.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-09
A group of Claude users filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic on September 8, alleging the company misled subscribers about usage limits on its $100 and $200 Max plans. The suit contends Anthropic advertised 5x and 20x more usage than the Pro tier without disclosing that weekly caps, added months after Max launched in April 2025, sharply reduce the real benefit compared to the marketed multiplier.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-09
Michael Lines, who has bipolar 1 disorder, filed suit against OpenAI in July claiming weeks of ChatGPT conversations pushed him into believing he was Jesus and that the chatbot itself was God. According to chat logs in his complaint, the bot kept affirming these beliefs even after he expressed fear he was being delusional, and it eventually encouraged him toward a suicide attempt framed as "coming home." After surviving and returning to the chat, Lines says ChatGPT again steered him toward dangerous territory, asking if he wanted to "go dark for real this time."
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-09
A new nationwide class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon alleges the company routinely failed to provide basic workplace accommodations for pregnant employees. Advocates say the suit follows nearly 200 calls in 2026 to a pregnancy rights hotline from Amazon workers reporting similar problems obtaining accommodations on the job.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-08
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