Technology

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 [UPDATE] 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.

November 12, 2020 Suddenlink has refused to reimburse customers for who’ve experienced outages and “near constant” sluggish internet speeds, a proposed class action alleges.

November 11, 2020 A class action alleges Hewlett-Packard Company has discriminated against certain workers by terminating their employment solely on the basis of their ages.

November 10, 2020 A privacy class action alleges Paravision mined the faces that appear in photos uploaded to Everalbum without first securing users' consent to do so.

November 5, 2020 A class action alleges General Motors and Decibel Insight have unlawfully "wiretapped" California visitors to Chevrolet.com.

October 27, 2020 A Washington D.C. guided tour company alleges in a class action that Google has come to have monopoly control over the online advertising market through anti-competitive conduct.

October 27, 2020 A former Uber driver alleges the company's reliance on its star rating system in determining worker terminations or "deactivations" is discriminatory against minority drivers.

October 26, 2020 A class action alleges YouTube has negligently failed to protect content moderators from the psychological trauma associated with repeatedly viewing graphic and objectionable images.

October 26, 2020 A class action claims Cash App-maker Square, Inc. and Sutton Bank's dispute resolution process for electronic fraud violates the Electronic Funds Transfer Act.

October 23, 2020 A class action alleges Machine Zone and Epic Action's Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire mobile app uses false and misleading advertising to get players to spend money in-game.

October 21, 2020 Google faces an antitrust class action that claims it's wielded "restrictive agreements" to box competitors out of the app store market for Android devices.

October 20, 2020 A class action alleges Amazon Web Services and Pindrop Security have run afoul of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act with regard to Illinois consumers' voiceprints.

October 14, 2020 A class action alleges the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services have failed to make the NY-Alerts notification service accessible to blind residents.

October 9, 2020 A class action claims Amazon's daily temperature checks for Illinois warehouse and fulfillment center workers violate a state biometric privacy law.

October 9, 2020 An antitrust class action alleges Apple engaged in a series of anti-competitive acts upon its launch of the "Apple Arcade" subscription-based mobile gaming service.