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Consumers sue Amazon over alleged tracking of sensitive data

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A class of consumers sued Amazon.com, Inc. on Wednesday, claiming the technology company secretly tracked and sold their sensitive data without their consent. In August 2024, a class action lawsuit brought against communications company Twilio alleged that the company’s SDK violated multiple statutes, including the CDAFA.

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US jury finds Google app store policies violate antitrust law

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Epic Games, the designers of the popular game Fortnite, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. along with Match Group, a company that designs dating apps, in 2020 in the US District Court in California’s Northern District. Epic Games celebrated the decision on Monday.

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Former Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing self-driving car trade secrets

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Former Apple Inc. engineer Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty Monday to theft of trade secrets from the company’s self-driving vehicle program. The case dates back to 2018 when Zhang was indicted for stealing a confidential 25-page document detailing circuit board designs from Apple’s nascent autonomous vehicle program.

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FTC orders social media companies to report on data collection practices

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted Monday to issue an order requiring nine major social media and video streaming companies to report on their use of consumer data. He also noted that the investigation does not extend to all major video streaming companies, with Apple being one notable absence. Facebook, Inc.,

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Germany competition authority finds Google has cross-market significance and subject to new abuse control

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The German competition regulator Bundeskartellamt Wednesday published a decision determining that Google fulfills the criteria for companies having paramount significance for competition across markets. At the same time, we are vigorously conducting other proceedings against Amazon, Apple and Meta, formerly Facebook.

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Apple to pay $308.5M for digital rights management patent infringement

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A jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decided Friday that Apple Inc. PMC is a patent-licensing company which currently has more than 100 issued patents and pending applications. In 2015, PMC sued Apple for infringing one of its patents associated with digital rights management. must pay $308.5

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Small Jazz Musician Foils Apple Music Trademark Registration

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Apple Inc. , — F.4th 2023) Apple Records was founded by The Beatles in 1968 and quickly became a success, producing many hit records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The companies eventually settled the case with Apple Computer paying $80k and agreeing to stay out of the music business. 4th — (Fed.