by Beth Holmes | Aug 1, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
T-Mobile has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit about a massive data breach, to the tune of $350 million. In August 2021, T-Mobile disclosed that approximately 50 million people, mostly not their customers, had been affected by a data breach. Most of the records...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | Companies, News, Profiles, Technology
Neutrality for Microsoft in the unionization of Activision Blizzard, even though the tech giant is in the process of buying the video game company. On Monday, officials at Microsoft announced the company has signed a labor neutrality agreement with Communication...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Technology
The Fair Repair Act has passed in New York, the U.S.’s first “right-to-repair” bill broadly concerning user electronics. Right-to-repair has been a topic of keen interest in the technology sector for a while, most often mentioned in conjunction with Apple and...
by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
A lawsuit in Kenya is going ahead against Meta Platforms, alleging unsafe working conditions in a Facebook moderation hub there. Daniel Motaung, a South African man, was relocated to Nairobi, the capitol of Kenya, to work for Facebook in 2019. He worked in a content...
by Beth Holmes | May 9, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, has reached a settlement to pay $141 million over misleading advertising. Until 2021, Intuit offered two free versions of their tax-filing program, TurboTax. One was through the IRS’s Free File Program, aimed at middle-income...
by Beth Holmes | May 2, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
Net neutrality won’t be challenged in California, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals on April 20th. Net neutrality is the stance that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot discriminate between the content users choose to access via their services. On a...
