Technology

November 16, 2022 A class action alleges the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has been sold with a “defective and dangerous” power cable plug and socket that can melt during normal use.

November 9, 2022 Apple and Amazon face a class action that alleges the retailers have worked together to eliminate or at least severely reduce the “competitive threat” posed by third-party merchants.

November 9, 2022 A class action alleges Toyota has equipped certain vehicles with “telematics” that have allegedly been rendered obsolete after wireless carriers phased out their 3G networks earlier this year.

November 7, 2022 Twitter faces a class action after executing a reportedly rushed and chaotic “mass layoff” of roughly 3,700 employees, approximately half of its workforce, on November 4, 2022.

November 1, 2022 A class action alleges the websites for each NFL team have unlawfully shared the personal identifying information of newsletter subscribers with Facebook without consent.

October 26, 2022 Major League Baseball’s media arm faces a class action that alleges it has illegally disclosed certain personal information of MLB.com subscribers to Meta Platforms (Facebook).

October 17, 2022 A California man has filed a proposed class action in which he alleges he was unable to use the Snack video dating app because he is more than 35 years old.

September 30, 2022 A class action says details of the video content viewed by ESPN.com and ESPN+ subscribers have been shared by the worldwide leader in sports with Meta Platforms without consent.

September 30, 2022 A class action alleges Chase Bank has used a Microsoft subsidiary’s technology to record and examine California customers’ voiceprints without their express consent or knowledge.

September 29, 2022 Parler Inc. faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the right-wing social media app has unlawfully sent consumers unsolicited, automated text messages.

September 20, 2022 A class action alleges Meta injects hidden JavaScript code into external websites to work around an April 2021 Apple iOS privacy update.

September 15, 2022 Twitter faces a class action that alleges the platform harmed investors financially by failing to be upfront about “major security problems” first reported by a whistleblower to CNN last month.

September 9, 2022 A class action alleges mobile analytics firm Kochava has illegally collected and stored California consumers’ precise location data and then sold that information to its clients.

September 7, 2022 A class action alleges YouTube has run afoul of an Illinois biometric privacy law by capturing and storing scans of consumers’ faces by way of its “Face Blur” tool.

August 25, 2022 Oracle America faces a class action that aims to take the worldwide data broker to task for allegedly surveilling and selling the personal information of hundreds of millions of people.

August 17, 2022 Uber faces a proposed class action stemming from the revelation last month that a cache of hundreds of thousands of internal records were leaked to The Guardian.

August 10, 2022 UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation face a class action over their alleged use of a Meta (Facebook) tracking pixel on their respective patient portal websites.

August 3, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has illegally “wiretapped” its website so as to monitor and record user interactions.

August 2, 2022 A class action alleges Fandom, Inc. has violated federal law by disclosing users’ identities and video-viewing preferences to Meta Platforms (Facebook) without proper consent.

August 1, 2022 A class action alleges LinkedIn has failed to provide certain mandatory disclosures before enrolling consumers into automatically renewing—and next-to-impossible-to-cancel—LinkedIn Premium subscription plans.

July 29, 2022 Uber and Lyft face a proposed class action over their alleged practice of increasing customer prices while suppressing driver pay.

July 19, 2022 Hewlett Packard faces a class action over its alleged display of misleading strikethrough prices and fake limited-time offers on its website.

July 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Apple has illegally monopolized the mobile wallet market by preventing consumers from using products capable of offering competing tap-and-pay solutions.

July 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Paramount Global Corp. has unlawfully disclosed certain information about those who watch videos on CBS.com with Facebook without consent.

July 11, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms has made false and misleading statements with regard to how many people see the digital ads sold by the company.

June 28, 2022 McDonald’s faces a class action over the allegedly “poor and/or negligent design” of its mobile app.

June 24, 2022 PayPal faces a proposed class action over its alleged refusal to reimburse Venmo users who’ve lost money due to fraud.

June 8, 2022 The companies who operate People.com face a class action that alleges the website secretly tracks and records visitors’ video-viewing habits and shares the data with Facebook.

May 27, 2022 A proposed class action in Illinois alleges Microsoft has failed to obtain informed consent before collecting consumers’ facial scans through the Photos app in Windows 10 and 11.

May 24, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, has discriminated against U.S. citizens, green card holders and others by preferring to hire visa-dependent workers who the company can pay less.

May 16, 2022 A class action alleges data broker Otonomo secretly collects and sells real-time GPS location details for millions of cars worldwide.

May 4, 2022 A class action alleges Samsung has falsely advertised certain TVs as having a “motion rate” of 120 Hertz (Hz) when they have an actual “refresh rate” of only 60 Hz.

April 28, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Amazon has misleadingly advertised that a Prime membership includes “free titles” from audiobook and podcast platform Audible.

April 26, 2022 An independent Florida artist alleges Meta Platforms has let copyright infringement run rampant on Facebook to boost the platform’s ad revenue.

April 22, 2022 Mailchimp faces class action after an employee allegedly fell victim to an email phishing scam that ultimately allowed cybercriminals to steal some Trezor wallet users’ assets.

April 21, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms has run afoul of a federal privacy law by “broadcast[ing]” certain personally identifiable information of consumers who watch content on Facebook Live.

April 18, 2022 Google and Alphabet face a class action that alleges the tech giants have for years forced those who use their digital-mapping product APIs into a locked-in bundle of services before then hiking up the price.

April 18, 2022 A class action alleges G.Skill has falsely advertised its RipJaws V DDR4-3600 MHz memory sticks in that they can only achieve the promised “[b]lazing [f]ast” transfer speeds if their firmware is “overclocked."

April 13, 2022 Elon Musk faces a proposed class action that alleges he injured Twitter investors financially by failing to timely disclose his new ownership stake in the company.

April 7, 2022 A class action contends that Amazon has misled consumers by providing the option to “buy” certain digital content even though the company does not own and merely licenses the material.

April 6, 2022 Uniswap Labs is among the defendants in a proposed class action that alleges the crypto exchange is besieged by “rampant fraud.”

March 23, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms has unlawfully allowed third parties to embed copyrighted photos and videos from certain Facebook accounts without permission to do so.

March 21, 2022 A former Google university programs specialist alleges the search engine giant has engaged in a systemic pattern and practice of racial discrimination against African American and Black employees nationwide.

March 14, 2022 A class action alleges Discovery Communications unlawfully shares certain HGTV.com visitors’ personally identifiable information with Facebook without consent to do so.

March 11, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms failed to share with investors the extent to which new Apple iOS privacy protections would harm the social media platform’s advertising business.

March 10, 2022 A class action alleges HBO has disclosed HBO Max subscribers’ personally identifiable information to Facebook without consent to do so in an effort to enhance its own targeted advertising.

March 9, 2022 A class action alleges Google has violated federal trademark law by using restaurant trade names without authorization in an effort to drive ad clicks.

March 8, 2022 A class action alleges enterprise artificial intelligence provider C3.ai misled investors by failing to disclose prior to its IPO that a key business partnership was "deteriorating."

March 3, 2022 A former Peloton Interactive employee alleges the fitness equipment and media company has failed to pay proper minimum and overtime wages in California.

March 2, 2022 A class action alleges PayPal has misrepresented to consumers the “real and repeated” risks of using its buy-now-pay-later Pay in 4 service.