Business Insider reports:
Facebook executives knew for years its “potential reach” advertising metric was inflated and overruled an employee warning to adjust it to avoid a revenue hit, plaintiffs of a lawsuit against the social media giant argued in an unredacted court filing. Gizmodo writes:
In a nutshell, this class action suit, which was first filed back in 2018, alleges that Facebook massaged…
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PlayStation 5 Controllers Are Suffering From Drift
Similar to Nintendo’s “Joy-Con drift,” Sony’s PlayStation 5 DualSense controller is apparently suffering from drift: movement on-screen that doesn’t correspond to any button press or input. ExtremeTech reports: Users have reported DualSense drift as quickly as 10 days after purchasing a PlayStation 5, which tracks with some of the shorter reports we’ve heard about Nintendo as well. We can assume that…
Amazon.com and ‘Big Five’ Publishers Accused of eBook Price-Fixing
Amazon.com and the “Big Five” publishers — Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — have been accused of colluding to fix ebook prices, in a class action filed by the law firm that successfully sued Apple and the Big Five on the same charge 10 years ago. The Guardian reports: The lawsuit, filed in district court in…
Dozens Sue Amazon’s Ring After Camera Hack Leads To Threats and Racial Slurs
Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy. From a report: A new class action lawsuit, which combines a number of cases filed in recent years, alleges that lax security measures at Ring, which is owned by…
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload ‘Pirate’ Movies and File DMCA Notices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: YouTube says it has found a “smoking gun” to prove that a class-action lawsuit filed by Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Pirate Monitor Ltd was filed in bad faith. According to the Google-owned platform, the same IP address used to upload ‘pirate’ movies to the platform also sent DMCA notices targeting the…
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance
Iwastheone writes: Italian regulators have fined Apple $12 million for making misleading and unfair claims about iPhone water resistance. The fine was imposed by L’Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), which translates literally as the guarantee authority for competition and the market. This is the competition watchdog responsible for ensuring that companies treat both consumers and competitors fairly. First,…
Google Sued After Cellular Data Allowances Eaten by Hidden Transfers
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google was sued last week for allegedly stealing Android users’ cellular data allowances through unapproved, undisclosed transmissions to the web giant’s servers. The lawsuit, Taylor et al v. Google, was filed in a US federal district court in San Jose on behalf of four plaintiffs based in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin in the hope the…
Amazon Argues Users Don’t Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content
When an Amazon Prime Video user buys content on the platform, what they’re really paying for is a limited license for “on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time” and they’re warned of that in the company’s terms of use. That’s the company’s argument for why a lawsuit over hypothetical future deletions of content should be dismissed. From a report: Amanda…
Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22
Uber drivers say the company unlawfully pressured them to support a ballot initiative that would make gig workers independent contractors, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court by a proposed class of California drivers. Bloomberg Law reports: The suit alleges Uber used a coercive campaign of misinformation to exert pressure on drivers to advocate and vote for…
Should Colleges Do Admissions Without Standardized Tests?
America’s not-for-profit College Board is a membership organization of 6,000 educational institutions that creates and administers tests used by college admissions offices. But it “operates as a near monopoly” with tests “which have a stranglehold on their student-customers…an organization under serious strain, run by an elitist, tone-deaf chief executive,” according to a new article shared by long-term Slashdot reader theodp: The…