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Australie : un tribunal sanctionne Google en matière de collecte des données - 16 avril 2021
La Cour fédérale australienne a tranché en faveur du régulateur australien de la concurrence, qui reprochait à Google de tromper les usagers d’Android.
Une décision de la justice australienne pourrait coûter plusieurs millions de dollars à Google. Le 16 avril, la Cour fédérale d’Australie a considéré que la firme de (...)
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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data - 16 avril 2021
Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will (...)
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The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue - 14 avril 2021
Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested because of a faulty facial recognition match, is asking for the technology to be banned.
On January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a (...)
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Supreme Court Backs Google in Copyright Fight With Oracle - 7 avril 2021
The 6-to-2 ruling ended a decade-long battle over whether Google had improperly used Java code in its Android operating system.
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google in a long-running copyright dispute with Oracle over software used to run most of the world’s smartphones. The 6-to-2 ruling, which resolved (...)
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Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers - 4 mars 2021
Uber accused of using ’loaded questions’ in survey of drivers
Unions say questions are designed to help get sympathetic changes in employment law
Uber has been accused of using “loaded questions” in a consultation with drivers, after a landmark court ruling handed workers rights to improved conditions.
The firm may (...)
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Judge approves $650 million Facebook privacy settlement over facial recognition feature - 28 février 2021
The suit claimed the platform stored biometric data in violation of Illinois state law
A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 million members of the class in Illinois who submitted claims to be paid “as expeditiously as (...)
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Facebook privacy settlement : 1.6M Illinois users will ‘expeditiously’ get at least $345 - 28 février 2021
A California federal judge issued final approval Friday in a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement, with an order to get at least $345 to each of nearly 1.6 million Illinois class members “as expeditiously as possible.”
Chicago attorney Jay Edelson, who filed the initial lawsuit against Facebook (...)
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India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech - 27 février 2021
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
The bank of cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort of media frenzy you would expect to await a prime minister caught in an embezzlement scandal, or (...)
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Uber drivers are workers, UK supreme court rules - 19 février 2021
Decision means drivers will be entitled to basic rights such as paid holidays, say lawyers
The UK supreme court has dismissed Uber’s appeal against a landmark employment tribunal ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers with access to the minimum wage and paid holidays.
Six justices handed down a (...)
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Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ - 17 février 2021
Government antitrust lawsuits have created openings for numerous private cases against Big Tech, with more expected to come. If successful, the cases could cost them dearly.
Google is facing antitrust cases from Europe’s top competition enforcer, the Justice Department and attorneys general from more than 30 (...)
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Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU - 9 février 2021
Clearview AI is a US company that scrapes photos from websites to create a permanent searchable database of biometric profiles. US authorities use the face recognition database to find further information on otherwhise unknown persons in pictures and videos. Following legal submissions by noyb, the Hamburg Data (...)
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McKinsey Settles for Nearly $600 Million Over Role in Opioid Crisis - 8 février 2021
The consulting firm has reached agreements with 49 states because of its sales advice to drugmakers, including Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin.
McKinsey & Company, the consultant to blue-chip corporations and governments around the world, has agreed to pay nearly $600 million to settle (...)
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Twitter poursuivi en France pour son manque de coopération dans des affaires de haine en ligne - 3 février 2021
Trois victimes de harcèlement citent en justice le réseau social, qui n’avait pas répondu à des demandes judiciaires. Faute d’avoir pu identifier des harceleurs, leurs plaintes avaient été classées.
Les réseaux sociaux prennent une place centrale dans le débat public mais peinent à assumer les responsabilités légales qui en (...)
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How Amazon Swindled Its Own Drivers, Got Caught, and Ended Up Richer - 3 février 2021
The company’s $62 million FTC settlement shows ‘corporate crime pays’
One of the world’s richest companies was accused of systematically shortchanging some of its lowest-paid, most precarious workers. It got sued by the U.S. government. It eventually agreed to pay back the money it had pocketed. And it came out (...)
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Amazon to pay $61.7M to settle FTC complaint over stolen Amazon Flex driver tips - 3 février 2021
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today that Amazon will be required to pay $61.7 million to settle charges that it withheld some customer tips from its Amazon Flex drivers over a two and a half year period. According to the complaint against Amazon and its subsidiary Amazon Logistics, the company had (...)
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Amazon reconnue coupable d’avoir gardé une partie des pourboires de ses livreurs aux Etats-Unis - 3 février 2021
La multinationale devra payer 50 millions d’euros après avoir été mise en cause par la Commission fédérale du commerce (FTC) pour avoir mis en place ce mécanisme pendant plus de deux ans et demi.
Amazon vient de débourser 61,7 millions de dollars, soit plus de 50 millions d’euros, pour régler une nouvelle affaire. Alors (...)
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Filmer la police est un droit : deux policiers jugés coupables de vol d’usage. - 30 janvier 2021
Nous attendions ce jugement depuis 5 ans, il a enfin été rendu. Les 2 policiers qui avaient saisi la caméra de notre équipe de reporters en octobre 2015 ont été jugés coupables de vol d’usage. Cette décision du tribunal correctionnel de Bruxelles est importante car elle confirme notre droit sans équivoque de filmer (...)
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Google’s threat to withdraw its search engine from Australia is chilling to anyone who cares about democracy - 24 janvier 2021
The tech giant’s Senate testimony shows how far it is prepared to go to resist real regulation
Google’s testimony to an Australian Senate committee on Friday threatening to withdraw its search services from Australia is chilling to anyone who cares about democracy.
It marks the latest escalation in the globally (...)
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Droit du travail : un chauffeur Uber requalifié en « salarié » - 24 janvier 2021
Je me sens comme un esclave : je travaille de longues heures chaque jour, sous les ordres d’une application, mais je n’ai pas de quoi me payer un salaire à la fin du mois. »
Guillaume* est chauffeur indépendant, ou « limousine » comme on dit chez Bruxelles Mobilité, où il a obtenu sa licence il y a un peu plus de deux (...)
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Comment des posts Facebook privés d’une salariée ont servi de preuves pour son licenciement - 20 janvier 2021
Dans une décision récente, la Cour de cassation a validé l’utilisation de publications privées postées sur un compte Facebook comme preuves dans le cadre du licenciement pour faute grave d’une salariée de la marque de vêtements Petit Bateau. Europe 1 décrypte les enjeux de cette décision de justice.
Nombreux sont les (...)
