Topic: legal action
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Reddit Sues Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping
Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three data-scraping firms for industrial-scale copyright infringement, alleging they unlawfully bypassed protections to harvest user content without permission. Perplexity AI is accused of using these services to obtain Reddit data for its AI engine instead of pu...
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Reddit Sues Perplexity Over Alleged Google Data Scraping
Reddit is suing four data firms, including Perplexity and SerpApi, for allegedly scraping its content via Google without permission to train AI models, seeking damages and injunctions. Google is tightening restrictions on data scraping and API access, while AI-generated summaries and zero-click s...
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GTA VI Developer Accused of Union Busting After Mass Firings
Rockstar Games is accused of severe union busting after terminating employees, with critics calling it the most aggressive anti-union action in the video game industry. The Rockstar Union vows to continue organizing for better rights and working conditions, asserting that the firings will not sto...
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Ex-Pokémon Legal Chief: No Lawsuit Over DHS Video
Don McGowan, The Pokémon Company's former chief legal officer, believes the company will not sue the DHS over its unauthorized use of the Pokémon theme song and imagery, despite its history of aggressive brand protection. A key reason for avoiding legal action is that many of the company's U.S. e...
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OpenAI Adds Parental Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users
OpenAI has launched parental controls for ChatGPT, enabling parents to receive alerts if teens discuss self-harm or suicide, and law enforcement may be notified in urgent cases. Enhanced content protections are automatically applied to teen accounts, restricting exposure to graphic material, harm...
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI for Product Advice, Warns Tech CEO
AI systems increasingly prioritize marketing materials over impartial journalism in their responses, potentially leading to biased shopping recommendations. Technology leader Vivek Shah advises users to critically examine the sources behind AI chatbot answers to ensure they receive balanced infor...
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PowerSchool Hacker Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student received a four-year prison sentence for orchestrating a 2024 cyberattack on PowerSchool, compromising tens of millions of students' and teachers' personal data globally. The attackers used stolen subcontractor credentials to breach systems, exfiltratin...
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Apple Pulls Women's Dating Safety App from App Store
Apple removed the women's dating safety app Tea from its App Store for violating terms related to content moderation and user privacy, including the exposure of minors' personal information. Tea experienced multiple security breaches that exposed users' driver's licenses, selfies, and private mes...
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FinWise Breach: Why Encryption Is Your Final Defense
The 2024 FinWise data breach was caused by a former employee who exploited retained login credentials, accessing sensitive data for 689,000 customers undetected for over a year. The breach exposed inadequate security measures, including possible encryption failures and lack of monitoring for irre...
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Salesforce Blames Social Engineering for Ransomware Breaches
The hacker group Shiny Hunters claims to have stolen nearly one billion records from Salesforce and is demanding ransom from 39 companies, threatening to release the data by October 10, 2025, if not paid. Salesforce denies its platform was breached, attributing the data loss to social engineering...
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Capita Hit With £14m Fine Over 6.6 Million Data Breach
Capita has been fined £14 million by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office for a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 6.6 million individuals, with the penalty reduced from an initial £45 million due to the company's cooperation and security improvements. The br...
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