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Facebook already hit with a lawsuit tied to the latest data breach

sudshr47 September 29, 2018

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That didn’t take long. Hours after Facebook revealed that at least 50 million users were “directly affected” by a data breach, two of the social network’s users have come together in a class-action lawsuit. 

It started early on Friday. Facebook alerted users that a security issue had been discovered on Tuesday, Sept. 25. A vulnerability in the site’s “View As” feature — which lets users see what others do when viewing their profile — gave hackers the means to take over people’s accounts.

It’s a bad situation that subsequently grew worse. Hours after the initial news broke, it became clear that Facebook users who had connected their profile to an Instagram account — and, potentially, any other third-party service — were at risk on those other platforms as well. Read more…

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Apple hit with lawsuit over the “completely reinvented” Macbook keyboard it rolled out back in 2015

sudshr47 May 12, 2018

A little more than three years ago, Apple announced a new MacBook with a “butterfly” keyboard that was 40 percent thinner and ostensibly four times more stable than the previous “scissor” mechanism that MacBooks employed. The promise was to more evenly distribute pressure on each key. Not everyone loved this “reinvention,” however, and now, Apple is facing […]

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Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward

sudshr47 April 17, 2018

Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usually a class action lawsuit filed. But until a judge rules that lawsuit legitimate, the threat remains fairly empty. Unfortunately for Facebook, one major suit from 2015 has just been given that critical go-ahead.

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James Damore is suing Google for alleged discrimination against white male conservatives

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

James Damore, a fired Google engineer famous for penning a memo that argued lack of diversity in tech is in part because women are biologically inferior to men, has sued his former employer. 
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Tesla is a ‘hotbed for racist behavior,’ class-action lawsuit claims

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

Tesla has faced lawsuits over discrimination before. Now, the automaker has been slapped with a class-action complaint that claims Tesla is a “hotbed for racist behavior” across one of Tesla’s factories.
Former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn filed the …

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