US AG Pam Bondi says that Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago
and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Secretary Kristi Noem / @sec_noem : Anti-ICE radicals are using social media apps to dox, threaten, and terrorize the brave men and ...
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
https://arstechnica.com/... h/t @Nonya_Bidniss Evan Greer / @evangreer@mastodon.online : I spoke with the NYT about why giving people harmed a stake in Clearview AI is not a solution. — #FacialReco...
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS
Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million …
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ CNBC : DO...
The US indicts a Chicago man who allegedly led a SIM-swap gang; members stole millions and posed as other people in Apple, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon stores
Scheme allegedly targeted Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile stores in 13 states. — The US may have uncovered the nation's largest …
SEC court filings: Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B profit per year before the coin's 2022 collapse
Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon's company, according to the agency
The CFTC's case vs. Binance is mainly about US clients, like high-frequency trading firms in NYC and Chicago, using an unregistered crypto derivatives exchange
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Uber reaches a $10M settlement with Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without the owners' consent and charging excess commission fees
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Investigation finds 45 criminal cases that cite Google geolocation data, obtained via a geofence warrant, to place suspects inside Capitol during Jan. 6 riots
and unearthed six previously unidentified mob members, including a Chicago cop. https://www.wired.com/... Mark Harris / @meharris : New from me: How the FBI used @Google geofence warrants to build a s...
Federal judges in Chicago rejected three government “geofence warrant” requests, concluding the requests violated 4th Amendment probable cause requirements
Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates …