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Facebook Up Scandal Estimate to 87 Million Affected
Facebook Up Cambridge Analytica Scandal Figures Up To 87 Million When the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, people were quite rightly upset. Facebook had allowed a company to now only collect data without our (at least expressed) knowledge but also allowed that company to share it with third parties. While they…
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YouTube Prankster Sued By US Burger Restaurant
YouTube Prankster Gets Sued For Burger Restaurant Stunt Over the last few months, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that YouTube stunts are getting a bit stupid. If it’s not eating soap tablets, then people are gluing microwaves to their head. Taking things a step further, a woman even…
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KIm Dotcom Asks Obama To Appear In His NZ Court Case
Kim Dotcom asks Obama to appear at his court hearing From an outside perspective, you wouldn’t think that the tech industry has many ‘characters’. Once you scratch the surface, however, you come to understand that people in the industry have more personality than an entire team of sportsmen. Two of…
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Billy Mitchell And Twin Galaxies May Sue Apollo Legend
Update Following the below article, Twin Galaxies contacted us at eTeknix to inform us that they deny and disassociate themselves with any intended or pending legal action against Apollo Legend. We have contacted them by return to attempt to find some further clarity and will update accordingly. Apollo Legend Likely…
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Blackberry Sue Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram
Blackberry It’s certainly been a rough 10 years for Blackberry. For a time their market share rivaled that of Nokia, then Apple came along and destroyed them. I must admit, I have always been a closet fan of their products, particularly their tablets which were admittedly bulky, but had some excellent…
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Streamer Sues Twitch Following Ban Stretching Nearly 2 Years
PhantomL0rd Sues Twitch Unless you do something particularly silly, it’s not exactly easy to get banned from Twitch. One user, however, PhantomL0rd is currently banned and has been for nearly 2 years. In an unprecedented step, however, he has taken to launching legal action against Twitch for his ban. Why…
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Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand Government For Over $6bn
Kim Dotcom Other than John McAfee, few people in the tech industry give us as much entertainment as Kim Dotcom. Founding MegaUpload in 2005, his website offering people the opportunity to share large sized files gave many a place to share documents too big for anywhere else. There was, of…
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BT Are Suing Valve Over Steam
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, we like to surprise you. Now it would seem that a company in the UK, British Telecom (more commonly known as BT) is looking to surprise everyone except Valve after claiming that they are now taking the company to court over patents…
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Security Firm Sued For Incorrect Forensics Report
Remember when you are watching those TV shows, you know the ones, where government agencies are trying to track down bad guys who have breached a “secure” network? Happens in real life too, with companies like Affinity Gaming finding out the hard way. Affinity gaming is a Las Vegas-based casino…
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Owner Sues For His Shot Down Drone
Last year there was a rather large issue in the US when Mr William Merideth fired his shotgun at a drone flying overhead. After the resulting crash, he was charged with a crime and the drone (or what was left) returned to its owner. In his court date, Meredith claimed…
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Hobbyist Wants FAA’s Drone Registration Legislation Cancelled
After the recent surge of drones, governments are playing catch up to both companies, such as Amazon who are looking at drones for delivering your orders, and those who would use them recreationally. Sadly though when people are given new technology, it doesn’t mean that people won’t get hurt or…
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Russian Gamer to Sue Bethesda For Fallout 4 Addiction
Video games like any entertainment medium can be addictive especially if the individual in question has an obsessive personality. Usually, consumers applaud developers for creating expansive experiences and enjoy the value proposition this brings. However, a 28-year-old man from Krasnoyarsk is suing Bethesda for $7000 because he didn’t realize Fallout 4…
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French Consumer Group Sue Valve Over Steam User Agreement
In an unexpected turn of events, a French consumer group, UFC-Que Choisir, have chosen to begin legal action against Valve over the user agreement for their popular game distribution platform, Steam. The decision to sue was revealed in a French letter, in which they explained that Steam’s subscriber agreement contains…
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Apple Guilty Of Using University of Wisconsin’s Patents Without Permission
We all use technology every day, and within those thousands of pieces of technology we find thousands more built up with designs and ideas from hundreds and thousands of areas. To protect companies interests in these designs and ideas they use patents, and the normal process is that if you…
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3-D Printed Gun Owner Sues Goverment
Say hello to the Liberator. The Liberator when first released was a big deal among the technological and law worlds, it being the first 3D printed gun. Made almost entirely made of plastic the liberator only uses a single metal firing pin, the one shot weapon can easily be printed…
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