Hacker News with Generative AI: Lawsuit

$6.7M stolen from city of Portland in phishing scheme (oregonlive.com)
A person posing as a city of Portland vendor persuaded a city employee to send them a link allowing them to redirect $6.7 million meant for a legitimate vendor to them, a lawsuit filed in New York this month says.

Cybersecurity, Phishing, Government, Lawsuit, Portland

14 points by rwc9 2 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla odometer uses "predictive algorithms" to void warranty, lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Tesla is facing a new scandal that once again sees the electric automaker accused of misleading customers.

Tesla, Lawsuit, Automotive Industry, Consumer Protection, Predictive Algorithms

16 points by pje 8 days ago | 1 comments

Our Privacy Act Lawsuit Against DOGE and OPM: Why a Judge Let It Move Forward (eff.org)
Last week, a federal judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss our Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). OPM is disclosing to DOGE agents the highly sensitive personal information of tens of millions of federal employees, retirees, and job applicants. This disclosure violates the federal Privacy Act, a watershed law that tightly limits how the federal government can use our personal information.

Privacy, Lawsuit, Government, Technology, Data

12 points by hn_acker 17 days ago | 1 comments

VMware says Siemens pirated "thousands" of copies of its software (arstechnica.com)
VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license.

Software Piracy, Lawsuit, VMware, Siemens, Industrial Technology

6 points by elorant 24 days ago | 0 comments

Lawsuit Alleges GM Illegally Sold Arkansans' Driving Data to Insurance Companies (insurancejournal.com)
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar this week, alleging the car manufacturer deceived Arkansans by collecting and selling driver information to third parties, who then sold the data to insurance companies.

Privacy, Lawsuit, Data, Automotive, Insurance

6 points by IronWolve 57 days ago | 2 comments

OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit (theregister.com)
Updated Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a California judge responds favorably to the latest filings in the case.

OpenAI, Microsoft, Lawsuit, Elon Musk

12 points by rntn 81 days ago | 0 comments

Lawsuit accuses Amazon of tracking consumers through cellphones (msn.com)

Privacy, Amazon, Lawsuit, Technology, Consumer Protection

4 points by isaacfrond 85 days ago | 0 comments

Google internal mail from tech search lead to ad lead [pdf] (justice.gov)

Google, Internal Documents, Lawsuit, Advertising

9 points by lifeisstillgood 118 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries (theregister.com)
Amazon has trouble in the US capital, where the city's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed today that the company excluded two postal zip codes from its fastest Prime delivery service without informing customers.

Amazon, Lawsuit, Prime Delivery, Consumer Rights, Low-Income

11 points by rntn 143 days ago | 0 comments

Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything (arstechnica.com)
Meta has defeated a lawsuit—for now—that attempted to invoke Section 230 protections for a third-party tool that would have made it easy for Facebook users to toggle on and off their news feeds as they pleased.

Meta, Lawsuit, Social Media, Section 230

23 points by rntn 169 days ago | 11 comments

Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] (wpengine.com)

Lawsuit, WordPress, Software

574 points by dangrossman 205 days ago | 626 comments

Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its 'pristine' propert (theverge.com)
Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing on and damaging its property in Texas.

Lawsuit, SpaceX, Real Estate, Texas

10 points by tombot 217 days ago | 1 comments

Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for Trespassing on Texas Land (nbcnews.com)
The maker of the party game Cards Against Humanity has sued Elon Musk’s SpaceX accusing it of trespassing on and damaging company-owned property in Texas.

Lawsuit, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Texas

33 points by gamblor956 218 days ago | 3 comments

Google sued by longtime enemy Yelp after years of antitrust complaints (washingtonpost.com)

Google, Antitrust, Lawsuit, Yelp, Business

9 points by pseudolus 240 days ago | 2 comments

Intel hit with lawsuit over $32B loss, shareholders complain company hid problem (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Lawsuit, Shareholders, Business, Finance

20 points by speckx 261 days ago | 13 comments

Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman (nytimes.com)

Elon Musk, OpenAI, Lawsuit, Artificial Intelligence, Business

3 points by ahiknsr 263 days ago | 0 comments

Google loses antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance (cnn.com)