Controlled digital lending “maintains copyright’s balance of interests and does not reduce financial incentives for authors,” wrote the Authors Alliance in a 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Thursday (docket 23-1260) in support of the Internet Archive in its copyright case.
Sixteen consumer advocacy organizations urged the DOJ to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple “with haste” in support of the agency’s “antitrust enforcement against Big Tech companies,” said their letter Thursday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta and Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter.
A second negligence complaint in as many days was filed against Comcast and its Xfinity brand in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia involving a data breach it became aware of Oct. 10. Plaintiff Steven Prescott filed an eight-count class action Tuesday alleging that Xfinity's claims of strong and robust security were “false and misleading” (see 2312200005).
The March ruling by the U.S. District Court for Southern New York against digital lending library Internet Archive “could profoundly affect longstanding protections for reader privacy and thus affect a core purpose of copyright: public access to information,” said an amici brief (docket 23-1260) Wednesday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court from the Center for Democracy & Technology, Library Freedom Project and Public Knowledge in support of the nonprofit Internet Archive.
Rite Aid “is pleased to reach an agreement with the FTC and put this matter behind us,” said the retailer Tuesday. It was responding to an FTC settlement, barring it from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years, to settle charges it failed to implement “reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers” in its use of facial recognition technology to combat theft in “hundreds of stores.”
The SEC sued three connected companies and their CEO for a “staggering” fraud scheme involving a private Nigerian company, Tingo Mobile, that purportedly sourced mobile handsets and services to “millions of farmers” but had “no meaningful operations or customers,” alleged the complaint Monday (docket 1:23-cv-10928) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Adams Bank & Trust maintained customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner” vulnerable to cyberattacks, alleged a class action Monday (docket 7:23-cv-05005) in U.S. District Court for Nebraska in North Platte.
Four Liberty employees accessed a customer's account about 30 times from December 2020 to June 2022 without her authorization and repeatedly failed to safeguard her personally identifiable information (PII) and customer proprietary network information (CPNI), alleged a SIM swap complaint Monday (docket 3:23-cv-01613) in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico in San Juan.
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) sells customers’ private purchase information without providing prior notice of the disclosures, in violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00118) in U.S. District Court for Utah in St. George.
A New Jersey woman is suing Match Group after she found her photo associated with another woman’s name on the company's online Tinder dating site, said a fraud class action (docket 2:23-cv-23115), removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark from New Jersey Superior Court in Bergen County.