A Ninth Circuit panel gave little indication Tuesday whether it will revive a proposed class action accusing Facebook of spying on cancer sufferers to target them with medical advertising.
Read moreIf you’ve participated in elections in the last two years and stayed engaged politically through social media, you’ve likely come across a pesky automation tool that two-thirds of Americans believe is maliciously used to generate political influence.
Read moreIn the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties.
Read moreDoes a politician have the right to block critics from their official social media pages? That question was asked of an appeals court for the first time Wednesday.
Read moreA meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users ended without a decision on whether to investigate.
Read moreA federal judge partially granted the University of South Florida’s request to compel discovery by ordering a student who reported rape to produce text messages between her and the accused party.
Read moreEuropean authorities are planning to slap internet companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook with big fines if they don’t take down extremist content within one hour.
Read moreEven people who prefer to get their news on social media platforms are worried about fake news, a Pew Research Center poll revealed Monday.
Read moreAlready sued by The New York Times for similar conduct, a Queens woman was hit with a lawsuit that says she has been falsely presenting herself as a Wall Street Journal reporter.
Read moreFacebook accuses Blackberry in a federal complaint of violating six patents for instant-messaging software.
Read moreMaine Governor Paul LePage must face a lawsuit from two constituents whom the Republican has blocked on Facebook, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreA class action lawsuit filed Thursday seeks billions of dollars in damages from Facebook for sharing user’s private data with device makers, adding to the woes of the social media behemoth already rocked by scandal and a recently plunging stock price.
Read moreIn addition to sowing discord ahead of the presidential election in 2016, Russian internet trolls and bots had a hand in spreading disinformation about vaccines, a new study found.
Read moreReflex 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 moreTerry Crews’ former social media firm’s manager sued for $1.5 million over claims the actor ordered a cybermob to “shakedown” his firm and ruin his reputation after refusing to pay him for his work.
Read moreFiling suit Tuesday against Match Group, 10 people who were on the ground floor of Tinder in 2012 say the dating app giant schemed to cheat them out of their stock options.
Read moreOfficials say it was “intentional exploitation,” while some inmates’ families described it as more of a “glitch.” Either way, reports that 364 Idaho inmates had a quarter-million dollars in credits improperly applied to their JPay tablet accounts had many on social media rooting for the prisoners.
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