I definitely agreed with others that Google's failure to realize the potential privacy problems of automating followers based on who you talk to the most -- and then making that info public -- was a privacy mistake, but is it worth a class action lawsuit? To lawyers, of course it is. These days, if you do anything that people don't like, you can pretty much expect a class action lawsuit ...

Nokia says that it will vigorously defend itself from a US based class action lawsuit which claims that the company mislead investors regarding handset production delays and price cuts. Click here for more.

This one could be useful for (former) AT&T customers theres a class action lawsuit against AT&Ts ETF provisions which could also provide a benefit to people who never paid an ETF. The web site explains it as follows: This Settlement will provide the benefits discussed below to qualifying former customers of AT&T Mobility or its predecessors

AT&T has proposed an $18 million settlement for a New Jersey class action lawsuit claiming that its flat-rate ETF is unlawful.

AT&T has published details about its settlement of a class action lawsuit in the state of New Jersey over early termination fees. Customers who were charged an ETF or had an account with a flat ETF rate between January ...

Back in 2008, we wrote about Amazon's questionable demand to book publishers that if they wanted to offer print-on-demand books, they had to use Amazon's own POD solution. A few months later, a class action lawsuit was filed, and after a judge refused to throw out the case, it looks like Amazon quickly agreed to settle (thanks Achura). Unfortunately, from the wording of the agreement, ev...

Apple has fought off a class action lawsuit alleging iPods damage hearing. A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the lawsuit, which claimed iPods to be defective because they lack adequate controls against “dangerous volumes” in music playback. The lawsuit was filed by two iPod users in 2006. They argued that the max volume limit of 115dB on the products was too high - enough to c...

We've discussed in the past how the class action lawsuit process if often abused mercilessly. While the concept of a class action lawsuit can make a lot of sense, as you look at the details of many of the lawsuits, they do little to nothing to benefit the "class," but plenty to make the lawyers involved quite wealthy. Eric Turkewitz, a personal injury lawyer who actually does tend to like cla...

The major labels and their friends like to throw around huge numbers of "damages" when it comes to copyright infringement. But how about when they're on the receiving end of a copyright infringement lawsuit. Up in Canada, there's a class action lawsuit against the Canadian divisions of all of the major record labels, suggesting that the labels have infringed on the copyrights of artists ...

Microsoft recently got some attention for cutting off hundreds of thousands of Xbox Live players for using modded Xboxes -- even if there was no evidence they were used for cheating. This is already leading to talk of a class action lawsuit against Microsoft. Even so, Microsoft is now going even further, issuing temporary bans for all of Xbox Live for anyone using a certain "exploit" in Modern War...