Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to “kill” products and features with which he took issue
https://www.macrumors.com/... @Laukidh@infosec.exchange : @Techmeme “In a November 2023 interview, Apple alleges that Aude denied leaking confidential information to anyone. However, during that inte...
Analysts say some arguments in the DOJ's lawsuit may favor Apple, as a judge ruled that Apple doesn't violate antitrust laws when Epic made similar claims
Here's Why Kristijan Lucic / Android Headlines : The DOJ lawsuit “threatens who we are”, Apple says Investing.com : Apple shares maintain neutral rating amid DOJ antitrust lawsuit Research Live : Appl...
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
In an announcement today, the agency said that, on top of … Jamey Kistner : 🔒 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to its 2020 privacy order with Facebook, accusing the company of f...
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers
their dominance in digital advertising. We'd love to see it happen, and here's why. 🧵 https://www.bloomberg.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : From all that I read in trade pubs, I thought Apple is th...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @journeydan , @loopemma , @counternotions , @drewfitzgerald , @taylor_owen , @kantrowitz , @robaeprice , @rahulmehrotraa , @thekenyeung , @martinsfp , @jason_koebler , @ke...
Leaked 2018 doc shows Binance conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed to intentionally deceive regulators and profit from US crypto investors
Apple et al do the same thing. (Allegations about encouraging US citizens to subvert AML is a different matter of course). In any event, great reporting @DelRayMan https://www.forbes.com/... Kontra / ...
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood
we reject claims that we defrauded advertisers. Damian Collins / @damiancollins : Yet more allegations regarding Facebook's opaque advertising system. Regulators such as the CMA should consider invest...