Technology

July 15, 2021 Soundhound has collected and disclosed Illinois residents’ voiceprints without obtaining written consent to do so, a proposed class action claims.

July 14, 2021 A class action contends that the Sidewalk network built into Amazon’s Ring doorbells and Echo smart speakers essentially steals consumers’ paid-for internet bandwidth without consent.

July 8, 2021 Former President Donald Trump has filed separate class actions against Twitter, YouTube, Facebook over what he alleges to be the tech giants’ “impermissible censorship.”

July 6, 2021 A proposed class action claims Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant secretly records conversations users never intended Alexa, or anyone else, to hear.

July 1, 2021 Apple has failed to sufficiently disclose to Ill. residents that the facial/fingerprint recognition features of iPhones, iPads and MacBooks extract their sensitive biometric information, a class action alleges.

June 8, 2021 A class action alleges Grubhub, Seamless, Uber Eats, Postmates and Doordash have continued to charge excessive fees in NYC despite the passage of legislation meant to curb the imbalance of power between the companies and restaurants.

May 28, 2021 A class action alleges thousands of consumers have been deceived into using Afterpay’s buy now, pay later service as a result of the company’s “misrepresentations and omissions” of how it actually works.

May 21, 2021 A class action alleges Instagram has encouraged, induced and facilitated third parties to commit widespread copyright infringement through embeds on other websites.

May 19, 2021 A class action alleges Grubhub has overcharged Los Angeles restaurants for the use of its platform in violation of a fee-cap ordinance passed by the city in May 2020.

May 18, 2021 Amazon faces a class action in Ill. over its allegedly secret use of state residents’ facial scans to improve Rekognition, image-recognition technology that the world’s largest online retailer markets and sells to third parties.

May 13, 2021 A Michigan resident alleges in a proposed class action that DraftKings has systemically failed to pay out on winning wagers.

May 7, 2021 A lawsuit alleges the battery in Apple’s iPhone 6 devices suffers from a defect that can cause the phones to overheat and explode in the course of normal use.

April 30, 2021 A class action alleges Peloton Interactive has issued “materially false and/or misleading statements” with regard to safety concerns surrounding the company’s Tread+ treadmill.

April 29, 2021 Google faces a class action centered on an alleged "security flaw" with the COVID-19 exposure notification system it helped develop.

April 21, 2021 Apple faces a class action over an allegedly “unlawful, unconscionable” clause in its terms and conditions that supposedly allows it to delete a user's Apple ID.

April 9, 2021 A class action alleges Google breaks its promises to never sell users’ personal information to third parties and to allow individuals to decide how their information is used “billions of times every day."

April 9, 2021 A class action alleges Robinhood defrauded those who placed orders on the brokerage platform between Sept. 2016 and June 2019 by concealing the practice of routing orders to a group of outside trading firms in exchange for compensation.

March 30, 2021 The mayor of Gurdon, Ark. alleges Suddenlink owes the city and others in the state quarterly five-percent franchise fees.

March 29, 2021 An Evanston, Illinois bookstore alleges Amazon.com and the Big Five publishers in the U.S. have conspired to constrict competition in the market for print trade books.

March 25, 2021 GrubHub has for nearly a decade withheld payments owed to hundreds of thousands of restaurants by improperly deducting “commissions” for sham food orders placed by phone, a class action alleges.

March 24, 2021 A class action alleges Old Navy, Norton Lifelock and Banana Republic have unlawfully tracked, recorded or intercepted the “electronic communications” of those in Florida who visit the companies' websites.

March 24, 2021 A class action alleges Google has profited from its distribution and sale of gambling game apps that afford players only the opportunity to win more playing time, and not actual cash “winnings.”

March 24, 2021 TicketsOnSale.com faces a class action that alleges the company wrongfully charged a Calif. man for tickets to a summer 2020 concert that was postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

March 24, 2021 A class action claims “known vulnerabilities” within Amazon Web Services’ cloud storage environment played a major role in the 2019 Capital One data breach that affected—and continues to affect—more than 106 million consumers.

March 19, 2021 A lawsuit claims some HP laptops were sold with a slower variant of Nvidia’s GeForce MX150 GPU that failed to perform as advertised.

March 15, 2021 A class action claims nCino, Live Oak Bank and Apiture have for years had an agreement not to hire each other's workers in the Wilmington, NC area.

March 15, 2021 Ray-Ban.com visitors have had their interactions with the website tracked, recorded and/or intercepted by Luxottica of America in violation of a Florida privacy statute, a class action claims.

March 12, 2021 Panera Bread Company faces a class action that alleges the restaurant chain has imposed additional, hidden fees on delivery orders despite promising that consumers will pay only a “flat” delivery charge.

March 8, 2021 A class action claims the outcomes of Moon Active Ltd.'s "Coin Master" social-casino-style game are tilted too far in favor of the "house."

March 5, 2021 A class action alleges Google has profited from illegal gambling by way of allowing downloads of Zynga casino-style games from the Play Store.

February 26, 2021 Google has made it "difficult or even impossible" to redeem Play store gift cards, a class action claims.

February 18, 2021 A class action alleges a Reddit, YouTube and Twitter user posed as an amateur investor in order to boost the price of GameStop stock, and that his former employers should have monitored his activity.

January 26, 2021 A class action claims PayPal and Synchrony Bank were of no help in resolving one accountholder's $1,000 money-sending issue.

January 21, 2021 A class action alleges the company behind the Premom app has shared users' personal info and location data with third-party Chinese data collection cos. without consent to do so.

January 20, 2021 Robinhood faces another class action over its apparent failure to disclose that the majority of its revenue comes from high rates of payment for order flow.

January 18, 2021 A class action claims the "free previews" on Spokeo.com violate the Illinois Right of Publicity Act with their use of residents' names, photos and/or likenesses.

January 13, 2021 A class action claims Classmates.com has "misappropriated" the names, photos and likenesses of California residents without securing consent to do so.

January 11, 2021 The developer behind Cyberpunk 2077 has faces a stock-drop class action after the "virtually unplayable" game was pulled from online stores.

January 6, 2021 A proposed class action alleges cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has illegally sold securities in exchange for commission payments without a license to do so.

January 6, 2021 A lawsuit claims major streaming services owe unpaid franchise fees to Georgia cities and counties under the state's Consumer Choice for Television Act.

January 5, 2021 SolarWinds faces a securities class action in the wake of an alleged foreign nation-backed cyber attack on U.S. government departments.

January 4, 2021 A class action alleges Robinhood has misled novice users into executing inferior trades by failing to disclose that its revenue relies heavily on "payment for order flow" from market makers in exchange for executing trades.

December 21, 2020 A class action claims HP transmitted firmware updates to its printers that block customers from using third-party ink and toner cartridges.

December 9, 2020 Facebook faces an antitrust class action that alleges the social media giant has wielded harvested user data and "acquire, copy and kill" tactics to squash competition.

December 7, 2020 A class action Amazon.com has unlawfully "wiretapped" Flex drivers' private Facebook groups to gain information on union efforts, labor issues and working conditions, among other details.

December 1, 2020 A class action alleges traders were harmed financially when Robinhood Financial failed to provide info on a T1 Halt of Hertz Corp. stock in March 2020.

November 25, 2020 A class action claims WebMD and Mouseflow have secretly recorded WebMD.com visitors’ keystrokes, mouse clicks and possibly personally identifiable information.

November 24, 2020 LinkedIn faces a class action after admitting it overreported certain online ad campaign metrics.

November 24, 2020 A class action claims Blizzard Entertainment and Mouseflow, Inc. have illegally "wiretapped" California visitors to WorldOfWarcraft.com.

November 12, 2020 A class action alleges Beam Financial has made a number of false assurances to its mobile banking customers.