Reflex Media accused five businesses in a federal complaint of setting up fake accounts on its Seeking Arrangement dating site to get personal information about users that they use to extort the men by threatening to post the information online with false claims of child predation.
Read moreThe majority of online daters slide into the direct messages of potential mates who are more attractive or desirable than themselves – often with very little success, according to a study on heterosexual online dating networks in four major U.S. cities.
Read moreIn a case involving novel issues of whether digital currency investments are subject to U.S. securities laws, a federal judge on Tuesday advanced a class action against a husband and wife team that raised $232 million for a new cryptocurrency.
Read moreWading into uncharted territory, a federal judge hinted Wednesday that he may advance a class action seeking to hold the creators of a new cryptocurrency liable for violating U.S. securities laws.
Read moreCalifornia accuses Angie’s List of false advertising and unfair competition in a Superior Court complaint, saying the website led consumers to believe its referral service does criminal background checks on home-service contractors, though it checks only the owners or principals, not employees, franchisees or independent contractors.
Read moreA federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the release of downloadable 3D-printed gun files on Tuesday, less than a day before they were to be released online.
Read moreOver the past three months, a series of powerful Russians have discovered their secrets seeping onto the web.
Read moreWith a settlement in Texas auguring the era of the 3D-printed gun, Pennsylvania won a federal injunction Sunday to keep downloadable firearms out of the hands of its citizens. On Monday, at least 20 other states followed suit.
Read moreHouse Republicans on Tuesday supported calls for congressional action in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last month holding states can collect sales tax from out-of-state sellers that do business within their borders.
Read moreNavy Commander Adolph Garza, 54, of San Diego faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Friday to conspiring to distribute ecstasy (MDMA) through the internet, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Read moreLegalForce aka Trademarkia accuses LegalZoom of trademark infringement and cyberpiracy in a federal complaint.
Read moreA shuttered online charter school fighting Ohio’s clawback of $80 million persuaded a state appeals court to remand its challenge of an administrative decision from the state school board that led to the loss in funding.
Read moreTriangle Media Corp., dba Phenom Heath, Beauty and Truth, and E-Cigs, repeatedly defrauded online consumers of more than $90 a month and refused refunds, the FTC claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreEurope’s highest court sided with U.K. authorities Thursday on whether auction credits sold by the penny-auction website MadBid.com are subject to value-added tax, more commonly known as VAT.
Read moreFlamboyant internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his former colleagues have lost their latest bid to avoid extradition to the U.S. to face criminal charges.
Read moreNow more than ever the internet is ingrained into our daily lives, and a nonscientific report Tuesday from the Pew Research Center says the positives can outweigh the negatives of being constantly connected despite misinformation, privacy issues and losing out on face-to-face interactions.
Read moreJapanese media startup Uzabase is acquiring Quartz, a New York-based online business news platform, from Atlantic Media.
Read moreIn a case that raised serious questions about free speech on the internet, a deeply divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday judges can’t order Yelp to remove 1-star reviews since it’s not the “publisher or speaker” of the content.
Read moreCivil rights groups and a digital library claim the Trump administration’s new law targeting websites where sex solicitations are posted is unconstitutional and the most comprehensive censorship of online speech in decades.
Read moreContrasting the dust on its records demands against the access given to Ancestry.com, an open-government group has asked a judge to put sunlight on the website’s correspondence with public officials in New York.
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