Plans to address legal but harmful content ‘threaten free speech’
The government’s plan to impose a duty on technology platforms to deal with “legal but harmful” content in the Online Safety Bill would be ineffective…
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Clearview AI raises $30 million from investors despite legal troubles.
Clearview AI is currently the target of multiple class-action lawsuits and a joint investigation by Britain and Australia. That hasn’t kept investors…
HMRC CEO claims email querying legal basis for loan charge ‘overplayed’ at committee hearing
An email sent by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) CEO Jim Harra where he admits to having “very little success” with finding legal backing for the…
AWS Elasticsearch fork exits beta, but legal battle rages on
After announcing that it would fork AWS Elasticsearch into an open source project earlier this year, The AWS-sponsored OpenSearch project has released…
Google will pay $590 million fine in latest legal headache
TL;DR
France has fined Google the equivalent of $590 million for allegedly failing to negotiate deals with news publishers in ‘good faith.’
Google has two…
Judge dismisses Amazon’s legal challenge to JEDI after contract cancelation
After nearly two years, Amazon’s highly public legal feud with the US government over the Pentagon’s decision to award Microsoft a $10 billion cloud contract…
Roblox deal with Sony will create (legal) in-game music experiences
Roblox is rushing to strike official music deals in the wake of a $200 million lawsuit over alleged copyright violations. TechCrunch reports that Roblox has…
Twitter has lost legal immunity for users’ posts in India, government argues
Twitter is now legally liable for content posted by its users in India after failing to comply with the country’s new IT rules, the government said in a…
Twitter loses its legal protections in India following government order
Twitter has lost its liability protections against user-generated content in India due to its failure to comply with the country's IT rules, the Indian…
How to find the documents behind big legal cases
Earlier this year, I spent a month covering the trial for a dispute between Apple and Epic. The case was one of the biggest antitrust suits in recent…