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Google to pay Android users $135 million in settlement. Here's how to claim your payment

Hamid Ganji — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:28:01 +0000

Google has agreed to pay $135 million to nearly 100 million Android users over allegations of data harvesting since 2017. Read more...

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright lawsuit

Paul Hill — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:58:01 +0000

Anthropic has settled with authors of books it allegedly pirated to train its AI models. This will set a precendent for other AI firms that have trained on copyrighted material. Read more...

Apple to pay $95 million settlement over Siri privacy lawsuit

Ramat Adetunji — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:58:01 +0000

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging Siri recordings violated user privacy. Affected iPhone and Apple Watch users may receive compensation for the breach. Read more...

Apple has finally started mailing out settlement checks for bad MacBook butterfly keyboards

John Callaham — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:40:01 +0000

Apple has begun to mail out settlement checks to people who joined a class action lawsuit many years ago about the faulty butterfly keyboards that were put in some older MacBook notebooks. Read more...

Meta's facial recognition feature has backfired, as it settles to pay $1.4 billion to Texas

Martin Hodás — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:56:01 +0000

A lawsuit filed against Meta in 2022 over its use of facial recognition software has led to, by far, the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single U.S. state. Read more...

Microsoft agrees to review leave policies after California settlement

Paul Hill — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has agreed to pay a $14 million settlement to workers who it allegedly discriminated against. Microsoft has also hired an independent consultant to help it improve its practices. Read more...

Some Fortnite gamers can now file to get refunds for unwanted in-game purchases

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:46:02 +0000

Thanks to a $245 million settlement with the FTC, some Fortnite players can now get their money back from Epic Games for unwanted in-game purchases, with a January 17, 2024 deadline. Read more...

You can now sign up for your share of Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:02:01 +0000

You have until August 25 to file a claim for the big data privacy settlement from Facebook that was approved in December 2022, if you were a Facebook member between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022. Read more...

Meta agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725 million

Usama Jawad — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:28:01 +0000

Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit concerning the data harvesting Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018. However, it has not admitted to any wrongdoing. Read more...

FTC fines Google and iHeartMedia for paid endorsements of Pixel 4 without endorsers using it

Usama Jawad — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:10:01 +0000

Google and iHeartMedia have reached a settlement with the FTC after the two were accused of paying radio hosts for endorsements of the Pixel 4 even though the endorsers hadn't used the phone. Read more...

Google agrees to pay largest privacy settlement in U.S. history for tracking location data

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:32:01 +0000

Google will pay $391.5 million as part of its settlement with 40 U.S. states after it continued to track users' location data even after turning location tracking features off in the settings. Read more...

Woman settles 'Windows' brand dispute with mighty Microsoft over a reading tool

Sayan Sen — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:40:01 +0000

A businesswoman based in the U.K. has settled a brand dispute with Microsoft over the "Windows" branding. The said woman, Kate Mckenzie, had built a reading tool dubbed "Word Windows". Read more...

T-Mobile to pay $350 million in settlement and $150 million upgrading data security

Paul Hill — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:24:01 +0000

T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million as part of a settlement after the records of 76.6 million customers were compromised. It will also spend $150 million upgrading its data security. Read more...

Google settles lawsuit over gender pay gap with $118m and agrees to external review

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:34:02 +0000

Google has agreed to settle (not admitting guilt) a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company was engaging in discriminatory practices pertaining to placements and payments based on gender. Read more...

Microsoft is removing non-compete clauses in the U.S. and increasing pay transparency

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced four U.S.-centric initiatives to foster a healthy culture at its workplace. These include removing non-compete clauses for almost all employee and increasing pay transparency. Read more...

Nvidia fined $5.5 million for misleading investors about crypto market

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:04:01 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business. Read more...

Google settles case with a terminated employee over workplace activism

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:24:02 +0000

A settlement between Alphabet, which owns Google, and Berland has been approved by the National Labor Relations Board. Other wrongful termination cases against the firm are still ongoing. Read more...

Zoom agrees to pay $86 million to settle class-action lawsuit

Usama Jawad — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:02:01 +0000

Zoom has agreed to pay $86 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. The allegations included breach of customer data privacy and poor security standards that allowed zoombombing. Read more...

Google to improve ad practices after being slapped with $268 million fine

Usama Jawad — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 10:40:01 +0000

Google has vowed to improve interoperability with third-party ad platforms after a French antitrust watchdog found it to be biased towards Google's own marketplace and fined it €220 million (~$268m). Read more...

Apple will pay $113 million to settle probe on battery issues with old iPhones

Jefferson Mangubat — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:38:01 +0000

Apple will pay $113 million for its second settlement of an investigation into its iPhone battery throttling practices. It also vowed to make its battery management practices more transparent. Read more...

Alphabet to shell out $310m to settle Google sexual misconduct lawsuit

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 02:16:01 +0000

Alphabet-owned tech giant Google, who had been grappling with a sexual misconduct lawsuit filed by its shareholders, has reached an agreement worth $310 million in settlements to close the chapter. Read more...

Apple agrees to pay $500 million to settle lawsuits for slowing iPhones

Abhay V — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:04:01 +0000

Apple has reportedly agreed to pay $500 million to settle lawsuits for throttling older iPhones. The proposal, which grants up to $25 in settlement for affected iPhone owners, is awaiting approval. Read more...

Stardock ends Star Control IP dispute with "amicable settlement"

Boyd Chan — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:42:02 +0000

In a legal battle that has stretched for more than a year, common ground has been found and an agreement brokered that will resolve all disputes regarding the Star Control franchise. Read more...

Sprint and AT&T reach settlement over the latter's fake 5G branding

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 01:44:01 +0000

Sprint and AT&T have settled a lawsuit filed in February of this year over the latter's use of fake 5G branding on its mobile device offerings, a marketing stunt that was criticized by rivals. Read more...

These violent delights have violent ends: Westworld mobile game closes doors

Usama Jawad — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:20:01 +0000

A few months back, Bethesda sued Warner Bros. claiming that the latter's Westworld game on mobile used assets from Fallout Shelter. Although the two reached a settlement, Westworld is shutting down. Read more...

Samsung apologizes for employees' illnesses likely caused due to poor work conditions

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:22:05 +0000

Samsung has issued a public apology for the illnesses and deaths of employees at its computer chip and liquid crystal display plants, saying it failed to handle health risks at those facilities. Read more...

Nintendo settles for $12 million in lawsuit against married couple who operated ROM sites

Usama Jawad — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:48:01 +0000

Nintendo has settled for $12 million in a lawsuit that it filed against a married couple who were operating ROM sites. The accused have also signed off the websites, games, and emulators to Nintendo. Read more...

Elon Musk will step down as Tesla chairman and pay a $20 million fine in SEC deal

Paul Hill — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 23:50:01 +0000

Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the U.S. SEC that will see him lose his chairman position at Tesla for the next three years. He will also have to pay a fine of $20 million. Read more...

Report: LG offers class-action settlement over bootloop issues

John Keefer — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:52:01 +0000

Several of LGs popular phones ran into a problem where the devices would constantly try to reboot. The cycle was endless and the phones effectively became doorstops, prompting the class-action suit. Read more...

Uber agrees to 20 years of audits in a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Vishal Laul — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:48:01 +0000

Uber has agreed to obtain independent third-party audits every two years, for the next twenty years, as part of a settlement over the charges levied against it by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Read more...

Nokia received $2 billion from Apple to settle patent disputes

Faisal Ahmed — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:22:01 +0000

In an earnings call this week, Nokia has revealed that Apple paid the company 2 billion dollars to settle ongoing patent disputes. The companies will share patents as part of the licensing agreement. Read more...

Years after the infamous data breach, Ashley Madison is paying out $11.2 million to users

Timi Cantisano — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:18:01 +0000

It has been years since the initial breach of the Ashley Madison website that resulted in millions of users data being revealed. Now, the firm is settling with the affected, paying out $11.2 million. Read more...

No Man's Sky developer ends 'secret, stupid' legal battle over the name of the game

Usama Jawad — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:18:01 +0000

No Man's Sky developer has stated that they have finally ended a legal battle with British telecommunications company, Sky, over the use of the word "Sky" in the name of the game. Read more...

Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe reach new deal to end U.S. lawsuit over poaching

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:46:01 +0000

Four tech giants once again try to resolve a class-action lawsuit by tech workers over employee mobility and compensation, after last year's rejected settlement of $324M. Read more...

Report: Apple and Samsung may settle lawsuits out of court after all

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 20 May 2014 08:58:55 +0000

According to a report by the Korea Times, Apple and Samsung may be working to settle their various cases outside of court. This comes after Google and Apple agreed a similar thing earlier this month. Read more...

Apple agrees to $32.5 million settlement with FTC over in-app purchases

John Callaham — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:01:32 +0000

The Federal Trade Commission announced Apple has agreed to a settlement where the company will offer at least $32.5 million to iOS users for in-app purchases bought by kids without parental consent. Read more...

BitTorrent site isoHunt shutting down thanks to settlement with movie studios

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:53:04 +0000

The popular BitTorrent search engine website isoHunt has entered into an agreement with the major U.S. movie studios and as part of that settlement will shut down operations next week. Read more...

Facebook to pay 615,000 of its users $15 each in new lawsuit settlement

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:07:58 +0000

A judge has now approved a new settlement from Facebook in a long running lawsuit, where Facebook will pay 615,000 of its users $15 each for using their names in Sponsored Stories without permission. Read more...

iPhone 4 owners start receiving $15 "Antennagate" check

Steven Parker — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:28:10 +0000

If you are, or were an iPhone 4 owner and you submitted a claim to Apple for the $15 settlement instead of a bumper case for the "Antennagate" issue, then you should receive that check very soon. Read more...

Apple offers $2.25M settlement for iPad 4G claim in Australia

Steven Parker — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:22:27 +0000

The iPad "Wifi + 4G" didn't go down well in Australia as dissatisfied customers found out when they discovered that the device is in-fact not compatible with the Australian 4G network, lawsuits ensue. Read more...