Software — Legal — April 7th, 2025
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses
With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE
April 7, 2025 — Source
UK can't keep its encryption fight with Apple private, court rules
Exactly two months ago, we reported on how the UK government wanted to spy on not just iCloud users living in the UK, but the world over, by ordering Apple to provide a backdoor in iCloud that allows the authorities to view whatever you upload to the cloud storage service, even content under Advanced Data Protection (ADP).
April 7, 2025 — Source or Source
Software — Legal — April 2nd, 2025
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue
April 2, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 28th, 2025
EU will go easy with Apple, Facebook punishment to avoid Trump's wrath
Lawbreaking under DMA to be punished—but not too severely.
March 28, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 24th, 2025
Google sues network of scammers for thousands of fake Maps listings
Google Maps is one of the highly popular services for getting information about local businesses and directions. Users have downloaded the Maps app over 10 billion times from Android's Play Store. The service that has more than 2 billion monthly active users has recently become a target of fraudulent activities.
March 24, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 21st, 2025
New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles.
March 21, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 14th, 2025
UK's secret iCloud backdoor order triggers civil rights challenge
The U.K. government's secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud storage service has now been challenged by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints Thursday. They called the order "unacceptable and disproportionate" and warned of "global consequences" as the access order is thought to extend to non-U.K. users too.
March 14, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 13th, 2025
The FTC has enough staff to pursue its case against Amazon after all
"I was wrong" about needing to delay trial because of staffing constraints, an FTC attorney says.
March 13, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 11th, 2025
Apple and Meta to be slapped with EU fines, but only as a warning shot
The US makes AI and electric vehicles, China makes AI and electric vehicles, the EU is busy coming up with tech regulations. As you know, there's a thing called DMA (Digital Markets Act) on the Old Continent. It's on for almost two years now and it aims to ensure fair behavior by dominant tech firms and prevent practices that hinder emerging platforms.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — March 8th, 2025
Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said
It will have to sell Chrome, but it can continue investing in artificial intelligence.
March 8, 2025 — Source
New DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrome, but allows for AI investments
The U.S. Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing.
March 8, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — February 28th, 2025
US lawmakers probe foreign pressure on tech platforms
A Congressional committee has sent subpoenas to eight US internet giants demanding to know whether foreign governments are curbing what can be seen online in the United States.
February 28, 2025 — Source
WordPress dispute escalates with class action lawsuit over blocked updates
WordPress user is alleging Automattic and founder Matt Mullenweg abused their control over the ecosystem
February 28, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — February 3rd, 2025
Apple's attempt to intervene in the Google Search antitrust trial is denied
Apple won't get to say how a Google monopoly breakup could affect its business dealings.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source
Court denies Apple's request to be involved in Google Search antitrust case
Apple isn't the only big tech facing antitrust investigations as Google has also come under scrutiny for its dominant position in the market. Even the deal between Google and Apple over Safari's default search engine was considered a violation of antitrust laws, and a court has now ruled that Apple cannot intervene in the case.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — January 24th, 2025
LinkedIn hit with lawsuit alleging private messages were used to train AI models
It's also accused of 'concealing' its data-gathering policies.
January 24th, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — January 13th, 2025
Trial over Apple App Store 'surcharge' opens in UK
Apple was accused Monday of abusing the dominant position of its app store at the start of a court trial in the UK, with plaintiffs seeking £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) in damages.
January 13th, 2025 — Source
Software — Legal — December 27th, 2024
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
Redmond's packing of Office with security, cloud computing services under scrutiny.
December 27th, 2024 — Source
The FTC’s Microsoft antitrust probe reportedly focuses on software bundling
Is it 1998 again?
December 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — December 13th, 2024
Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe
SEC offered settlement in stock probe and is investigating Neuralink, Musk says.
December 13th, 2024 — Source
OpenAI just dropped new Elon Musk receipts: 'You can't sue your way to AGI'
The AI startup just fired back in its ongoing lawsuit with cofounder Elon Musk.
December 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — November 27th, 2024
Microsoft is being investigated by the FTC over antitrust concerns
It's not clear what could happen to the probe once Trump appoints a new chair and Republican commissioner.
November 27th, 2024 — Source
Retrieve-Revise-Refine: A novel framework for retrieval of concise entailing legal articles
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to redefine the boundaries of legal technology, offering to automate advanced tasks such as legal question answering and consultation. In the domain of statute law, a particular challenge is the task of retrieving the concise set of entailing legal articles to a query. In this context, we refer to this task as entailing legal article set retrieval or, more briefly, legal article set retrieval.
November 27th, 2024 — Source
Spanish media lawsuit against Meta to start in October 2025
A Madrid court set Wednesday an October 2025 trial date for a 550-million-euro lawsuit by more than 80 Spanish media against Facebook owner Meta for allegedly violating EU data protection rules.
November 27th, 2024 — Source
Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS
Stripe replaced its observability platform, which used a third-party vendor solution, with a new architecture utilizing managed services on AWS. The company made the move due to scalability limits, reliability issues, and increasing costs while transitioning to microservices. The migration involved dual-writing metrics, translating assets, validation, and user training.
November 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — November 25th, 2024
India's Antitrust Regulator Dismisses Apple's Request to Pause Probe
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected Apple's bid to halt the release of an investigative report that found the company violated competition laws.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — November 21st, 2024
DOJ Proposes Google Sell Chrome to Address Antitrust Issues
The US Department of Justice is proposing that, among other remedies, Google sell off its Chrome browser to solve search monopoly complaints.
November 21st, 2024 — Source or Source
DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default
Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Google calls out the DOJ for its 'extreme' plan to break up its search business
DOJ confirms plans to force Google to sell off Chrome.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Google Fumes As DOJ Pushes To Sell Off Chrome And Calls It An Agenda That Goes Beyond The Legal Issue
Regulatory authorities aggressively approaching companies that violate the anti-trust laws or have been trying to dominate the market has become the talk of the town, with tech giants facing increased pressure to change their policies and make amendments or bear consequences. Such is the case with Google lately, which has been in hot waters for quite some time due to its monopolistic practices, as DOJ keeps on pushing proposals for the company to bring about some major changes.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
OpenAI accidentally erased ChatGPT training findings as lawyers seek copyright violations
The New York Times and Daily News have sued OpenAI and its investor Microsoft over suspicions that ChatGPT was trained on their copyrighted works. Now, it turns out, the lawyers’ research into the training data was erased last week by OpenAI engineers, presumably by accident.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
OpenAI’s Accidental Deletion Complicates Copyright Case with NY Times
Attorneys representing The New York Times and Daily News claim OpenAI engineers mistakenly removed data concerning their lawsuit over unauthorized use of the publications’ content for AI training.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
US Will Watch Over Apple Pay and Google Pay Like Banks
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is going ahead with a rule that will see it supervise non-bank wallet and transfer apps, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay.
November 21st, 2024 — Source or Watch Video
Welcome to Google’s nightmare: US reveals plan to destroy search monopoly
DOJ goes for Google's throat with "staggering" remedies to end search monopoly.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — November 17th, 2024
Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — communications released during the recent OpenAI court case
DeepMind's ambition sparked OpenAI's formation.
November 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — October 22nd, 2024
News Corp is suing Perplexity for scraping its articles
The AI landscape is many things, and one of them is a war zone with shots being fired between AI companies and publishers. For example, The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Well, according to a new report, News Corp is now suing Perplexity (PDF) for allegedly scraping content from some of its news companies.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — September 28th, 2024
Opinion: How to design a US data privacy law
Op-ed: Why you should care about the GDPR, and how the US could develop a better version.
September 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — September 19th, 2024
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring
September 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — September 6th, 2024
Man charged with streaming his AI-generated music billions of times using bots, generating $12 million
Crime does pay, until you're caught
September 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — August 6th, 2024
Android Headlines CEO weighs in on Google's antitrust trial verdict
As many of you know by now, the DOJ won a trial against Google. That news was shared yesterday, as Google has been found guilty of antitrust practices in both search and ads businesses.
August 6th, 2024 — Source
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, Alleges Betraying Non-Profit Goals
Musk's lawyer says this lawsuit is "much more forceful."
August 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — August 2nd, 2024
CrowdStrike sued by investors over massive global IT outageCybersecurity company CrowdStrike has been sued by investors who say it provided false claims about its Falcon platform after a bad security update led to a massive global IT outage causing the stock price to tumble almost 38%./span>
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — July 18th, 2024
Amazon partners with Better Business Bureau in its first joint lawsuit against fake review brokers
Amazon is getting some help in its fight against fake reviews.
July 18th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — July 5th, 2024
Lucrative Apple -- Google default search deal threatened by antitrust lawsuit
Apple's lucrative deal with Alphabet subsidiary Google, making Google Search the default on Safari, faces an uncertain future due to the looming U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit, The Information reports.
July 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — June 26th, 2024
Under fire in the U.S. and Europe, Microsoft tests its new approach to government scrutiny
In the giant dog park of global government regulation, Microsoft is showing its belly.
June 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — June 17th, 2024
US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
The Justice Department alleges that Adobe hid early cancellation fees and trapped consumers in pricey subscriptions.
June 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — June 6th, 2024
Microsoft gets an antitrust probe into its deal with Inflection AI
We all know Microsoft as a tech behemoth that's not shy about buying out other companies to get ahead. However, this practice has landed it in legal trouble with several governmental bodies due to antitrust concerns. Microsoft had a deal with Inflection AI, and the FTC launched a probe into it to see if it dodged antitrust laws.
June 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — May 17th, 2024
EU warns Microsoft it could be fined billions over missing GenAI risk info
The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc"s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), after the company failed to respond to a request for information (RFI) that focused on its generative AI tools.
May 17th, 2024 — Source or Source
Microsoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake
But its Inflection hires and Amazon"s Anthropic deal aren"t so cut-and-dry
May 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — May 13th, 2024
Microsoft is still facing EU antitrust charges despite unbundling Teams from Office
It seems that Microsoft's attempts to sidestep anticompetition legal action over its Teams software has failed. Although Teams has been -- begrudgingly -- unbundled from Office, the European Commission is believed to be forging ahead with antitrust charges.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Places is a new Teams app to help remote workers with in-office schedules and more
The COVID-19 pandemic sent most people who work in an office back home to work remotely. That allowed online meetings and collaboration services like Microsoft Teams and others to surge in popularity. However, with the pandemic now over, many companies are still allowing their employees to continue to work remotely, at least for some days of the week.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams
Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — Legal — May 10th, 2024
Define irony: OpenAI, sued repeatedly for copyright infringement, files claim against subreddit before backing down
Even Musk thought it was hypocritical
May 8th, 2024 — Source