Legal

UK ICO Fines NHS Supplier For Medical Records Breach

NHS supplier Advanced Computer Software Group fined £6m for data breach that exposed medical records of 82,000 people

3 months ago

Microsoft, CrowdStrike Hit Back At Delta’s Compensation Bid

Delta's old infrastructure blamed for its long recovery from global IT outage that resulted in over 6,000 cancelled flights

3 months ago

Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over “Massive Advertiser Boycott”

Advertising boycott. Lawsuit filed against World Federation of Advertisers and member firms Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted

3 months ago

TikTok Asks Court To Reject Secret Court Filings In Ban Challenge

TikTok, ByteDance ask appeals court to reject US request to file parts of case in secret as companies challenge US…

3 months ago

TikTok Withdraws Rewards Programme From EU After DSA Probe

TikTok to withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from EU in first case to be resolved under bloc's new Digital Services…

3 months ago

Musk Files New Lawsuit Against Altman, OpenAI

Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI, chief executive Sam Altman over claims company defrauded him by becoming commercial entity

3 months ago

US Judge Finds Google ‘Is Monopolist’ In Landmark Ruling

US federal judge rules Google illegally maintained monopoly in search and advertising, opening way to remedy phase of trial

3 months ago

Government Takes Social Media To Task Over Violence

Government promises action against people inciting violence online as home secretary says social media firms should be doing more

3 months ago

SEC Charges IRL Founder With Investor Fraud

US regulator says Abraham Shafi fraudulently raised millions for social media platform IRL while using investor funds for personal expenses

3 months ago

Elon Musk Sued By Former CNN Anchor Over Cancelled X Deal

Lawsuit time. Musk had cancelled contract with Don Lemon for talk show on X, after questioning over platform's content moderation…

4 months ago

CrowdStrike Sued By Shareholders After Huge IT Outage

IT outage fallout. CrowdStrike sued by shareholders who allege firm defrauded them by concealing inadequate software testing

4 months ago

US To Exempt Allies From Expanded China Chip Equipment Export Rules

Biden administration reportedly will exempt certain allied countries from tougher chip equipment export rules to China

4 months ago

UK Investigates Alphabet Partnership With AI Firm Anthropic

British competition regulator, the CMA, to investigate Google parent Alphabet’s partnership with AI startup Anthropic

4 months ago

CrowdStrike Shares Plunge Amid Delta Compensation Report

Shares in CrowdStrike take another hit after report suggests Delta Air Lines will seek compensation for recent global IT outage

4 months ago

LinkedIn To Pay $6.625m In Ad Lawsuit Settlement

Microsoft's LinkedIn agrees to $6.625m settlement with advertisers over alleged overcharging based on inflated ad metrics

4 months ago

CrowdStrike CEO: 97 Percent Of Windows Sensors Back Online

One week after the world's largest IT outage, the head of CrowdStrike says nearly all impacted machines are back online

4 months ago

CrowdStrike Blames ‘Undetected Error’ For World’s Largest IT Outage

CrowdStrike CEO summoned to testify before US Congress, as firm provides update about update that crashed millions of computers last…

4 months ago

Microsoft Blames 2009 EU Agreement For World’s Biggest IT Outage

Redmond says EU deal gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, allowing last week's huge IT outage to happen

4 months ago

Nigeria Fines Meta $220m Over Privacy Infringements

Nigerian competition and consumer agency fines Meta $220m over violations of privacy law, after probe spurred by WhatsApp user agreement

4 months ago

Oracle To Pay $115m In Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

Oracle to pay $115m to settle proposed class-action lawsuit over 'digital dossiers' that allegedly collected data on hundreds of millions

4 months ago

TikTok Parent Loses Bid To Avoid EU ‘Gatekeeper’ Label

China's ByteDance has lost a legal challenge to avoid a European Union 'gatekeeper' designation, but can appeal ruling

4 months ago

Microsoft Faces UK Probe Over Inflection Staff Hiring

Poaching staff? UK's CMA regulator confirms phase one investigation of Microsoft's “hiring” of former Inflection AI staff

4 months ago

Musk Defeats $500m Mass Twitter Layoff Lawsuit

Elon Musk gains dismissal of lawsuit claiming he refused to pay $500m severance to thousands of fired Twitter staff

4 months ago

Russia’s Central Bank Tells Businesses To Use Crypto To Avoid Sanctions

Sanctions busting. Russian businesses told to use cryptocurrencies and other digital options to make payments with foreign customers

5 months ago

ASML Veldhoven Expansion Gains Dutch Court Approval

Expansion of ASML's operations in The Netherlands receives court approval, after objections from two neighbours

5 months ago

Fisker Seeks Approval For Firesale Of Remaining EVs

Fisker asks bankruptcy judge for permission to sell remaining Ocean SUV at just $14,000 per EV, down from $70,000

5 months ago

US Supreme Court Sidesteps Decision On Social Media Laws

US Supreme Court throws out lower court decisions on Florida, Texas laws imposing social media regulation, demands more research

5 months ago

SEC Files Lawsuit Against Crypto Firm Consensys

SEC files latest enforcement lawsuit against crypto firm Consensys as it seeks to apply established rules to digital assets

5 months ago

Tesla Argues Elon Musk Won Battle Over $56 Billion Pay Package

Tesla, citing shareholder vote, claims Elon Musk has won the legal battle over $56bn pay package, despite judge ruling against…

5 months ago

FBI Offers $5 Million Bounty For Fugitive ‘CryptoQueen’ Ruja Ignatova

US authorities place huge bounty on Ruja Ignatova, the former leader of OneCoin cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme

5 months ago