/technology?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Technology Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:36:39 +0000 /technology/articles/2372590?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372590 A California federal jury Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for violating the state's wiretap law by using a data analytics tool to retrieve sensitive health data from users of the popular menstrual tracking app Flo, in what plaintiffs' counsel called "one of the first times" a major tech company has been held accountable for such practices.  Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:49:31 +0000 /technology/articles/2371924?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2371924 The Chinese companies behind cannabis vape brand CCell have urged a California federal court to dismiss a consolidated consumer class action accusing it of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme, accusing the buyers of "padding" their amended complaint with "copy-pasted" passages from other, unrelated lawsuits. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:45:36 +0000 /technology/articles/2370813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2370813 Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart dismissed most of the 50 petitions for inter partes review addressed in her latest decisions over discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:29:50 +0000 /technology/articles/2372006?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372006 A federal judge erred in tossing class claims accusing Amazon of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, including by finding that a third-party software company was a "financial institution," the named plaintiffs told the Third Circuit Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:25:07 +0000 /technology/articles/2372432?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372432 Tesla was slapped with a proposed class action in California federal court Thursday alleging it illegally shares its website visitors' information with third parties like Google through the deployment of tracking pixels for data monetization and advertising purposes, without their knowledge or consent.  Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:40:18 +0000 /technology/articles/2371813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2371813 A federal jury in Delaware on Friday cleared media measurement platform HyphaMetrics of claims that it infringed a pair of patents owned by television ratings business Nielsen relating to image processing and identifying media devices. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:40:08 +0000 /technology/articles/2372578?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372578 A Seattle federal judge is forcing X Corp. to fully pay the fees for arbitrating the claims of about 150 former Twitter employees in Washington who say they were shorted on bonus and severance pay amid layoffs after Elon Musk took over the social media giant in 2022. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:22:38 +0000 /technology/articles/2372031?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372031 Patent challengers at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board will no longer be able to skirt a requirement that they must identify where all the elements of the patent are found in prior art patents or printed publications, according to a notice from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:51 +0000 /technology/articles/2372459?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372459 The Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived a lawsuit brought by 13-year-old boys who had been sex trafficked alleging X Corp. refused to remove pornographic videos of them, saying Section 230 shields the social media platform from claims it knowingly benefited from sex trafficking, but not from negligence and defective-reporting design claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:17:27 +0000 /technology/articles/2372440?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372440 Republican lawmakers have kicked off a review that could lay the groundwork for new financial data privacy legislation, soliciting public input on whether and how to overhaul a law that governs financial institutions' handling of consumer financial records. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:56:47 +0000 /technology/articles/2372541?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372541 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it plans to ramp up its internal use of artificial intelligence tools with a new task force led by a veteran staffer who's recently led the agency's fintech efforts. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:45:42 +0000 /technology/articles/2372423?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372423 A Pennsylvania federal court has given its final approval to a $6.8 million settlement of data breach claims against now-bankrupt Rite Aid Corp., including $2.4 million in fees for attorneys from Ahdoot & Wolfson PC, Shub Johns & Holbrook LLP, Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP, Laukaitis Law LLC and Hausfeld LLP. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:44:13 +0000 /technology/articles/2372407?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372407 The Eighth Circuit backed the dismissal Friday of an ex-information technology worker's suit claiming the University of Nebraska fired him for seeking accommodations for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ruling he failed to show his condition, rather than a violation of school policy, caused his termination. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:26:14 +0000 /technology/articles/2372360?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372360 The full Federal Circuit on Friday rejected Groupon's request for review of a decision that allowed a patent suit against it to proceed on some claims after similar ones were invalidated in an inter partes review, although two dissenting judges said the holding undermines the America Invents Act. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:12:32 +0000 /technology/articles/2372447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372447 A quartet of Senate Democrats called Friday for the U.S. Department of Justice's internal watchdog to look for "improper business and political considerations" in the settlement permitting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:20:53 +0000 /technology/articles/2372470?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372470 A bipartisan pair of lawmakers filed a bill Thursday to ensure the Federal Communications Commission keeps tabs on the accuracy of broadband maps used to pinpoint where funding is needed for high-speed internet service. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:59 +0000 /technology/articles/2372274?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372274 The Federal Circuit on Friday denied Fintiv Inc.'s request to delay its Monday trial against Apple over a patent for storing virtual credit cards on mobile devices for contactless payments. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:39 +0000 /technology/articles/2371967?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2371967 U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is floating a proposal that would require TikTok to be transparent about how it displays content and limit foreign access to user data in order to allow the app to escape a legislative mandate to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:37:10 +0000 /technology/articles/2372291?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2372291 The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:25:20 +0000 /technology/articles/2371427?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /technology/articles/2371427 The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how healthcare providers collect, store, share and use data — and approach vendor oversight — that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.