Gaming Tech Culture Activision Blizzard, California settle gender discrimination lawsuit for $54M The game maker has taken several steps to improve inclusivity at the company By Erika Morphy, December 17, 2023, 10:25 AM 15 comments
Industry Google Court mandates Epic and Google to settlement talks before concluding antitrust lawsuit Judge surprised that parties had not even attempted to settle; says, "This is solvable" By Cal Jeffrey, November 29, 2023, 3:34 PM
Tech Culture The Web There's just one month left to claim your share of Meta's $725 million settlement, here's how Cambridge Analytica is still haunting Meta By Rob Thubron, July 30, 2023, 11:13 AM 8 comments
Industry Meta agrees to $725 million settlement in Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit The largest settlement ever achieved in a data privacy class action By Rob Thubron, December 23, 2022, 6:18 AM
Industry Security SEC fines Morgan Stanley $35 million after exposing customer data on 1,000 auctioned hard drives This is why we can't have nice things By Cal Jeffrey, September 21, 2022, 4:04 PM 10 comments
Industry Meta settles Facebook/Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit, preventing Zuckerberg from testifying Good timing for Zuck By Rob Thubron, August 29, 2022, 6:55 AM 18 comments
Tech Culture Facebook is giving $397 payments to Illinois residents as part of its facial-recognition lawsuit settlement That free money isn't a scam By Rob Thubron, May 19, 2022, 6:49 AM
Industry Gaming Activision Blizzard's $18 million settlement in EEOC sexual harassment case becomes official California lawsuit and others are still on By Daniel Sims, March 29, 2022, 4:26 PM
Industry Twitter proposes a $809 million settlement to end a Securities Exchange Act lawsuit Lawyers claim the social network was conducting a 'shell game' By Cal Jeffrey, September 20, 2021, 2:18 PM
Apple Mobile Apple will make changes to App Store rules to settle class-action lawsuit The company will also pay $100 million to small developers By Adrian Potoroaca, August 27, 2021, 6:58 AM 9 comments
Google Google+ users stand to get up to $12 each in $7.5 million data breach settlement Come on settlement money, Daddy needs a new pair... a new shoe By Cal Jeffrey, August 7, 2020, 12:38 PM 10 comments
Security TikTok settles children's data lawsuit one day after it was filed Move along now -- Nothing to see here By Cal Jeffrey, December 5, 2019, 3:12 PM
Industry Hardware AMD will pay buyers of its Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs up to $300 If you lived in California at the time or bought one from AMD.com By Rob Thubron, October 17, 2019, 7:32 AM 9 comments
Industry Equifax settlement administrator calls for proof of credit monitoring before disbursement of funds Respondents have until mid-October to provide the name of their service provider By Cal Jeffrey, September 9, 2019, 1:07 PM
Industry FTC recommends free credit monitoring over $125 cash in Equifax settlement The response for cash payments has been 'overwhelming' By Cal Jeffrey, July 31, 2019, 5:05 PM 10 comments
Industry Office Depot pays FTC $25 million for allegedly using fake malware scans and charging for repairs The money will be used to refund affected customers By Rob Thubron, March 28, 2019, 7:11 AM 14 comments
Industry Charter signs $174 million settlement agreement with New York following low-quality service complaints $62.5 million will be refunded to consumers By Cohen Coberly, December 18, 2018, 4:15 PM
Industry Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million, provide credit monitoring to settle data breach lawsuit The two-year-old suit looks to be winding down By Shawn Knight, October 24, 2018, 11:14 AM
Car Tech Uber reaches settlement with family of woman killed by its self-driving vehicle A legal battle looks to have been avoided By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2018, 8:55 AM 44 comments
Electronics Security Connected sex toy maker settles data collection lawsuit, affected users entitled to up to $10,000 By Shawn Knight, March 15, 2017, 2:30 PM
Electronics Security Vizio tracked TV viewers and sold data without consent By Tim Schiesser, February 6, 2017, 7:15 PM 23 comments
Mobile T-Mobile agrees to pay $48 million to settle FCC investigation into 'unlimited' data plans By Shawn Knight, October 19, 2016, 11:00 AM
Hardware Software TP-Link routers to support open source firmware after FCC settlement By Tim Schiesser, August 2, 2016, 6:15 AM
Apple Settlement payments now going out in Apple price-fixing case By Shawn Knight, June 20, 2016, 8:30 PM
Car Tech Lyft pays $12.25 million settlement to its drivers, but they're still not classed as employees By Rob Thubron, January 27, 2016, 4:45 PM