#class action

[allthecanadianpolitics]

If you've ever used 23andMe to learn more about your family ancestry, you could be eligible for compensation due to a class-action lawsuit against the company.

Law firms in Toronto and Vancouver launched a class-action lawsuit against 23andMe this week in response to a data breach that exposed users’ highly sensitive and valuable personal information earlier this year.

"The action alleges that contrary to their promises, statements and representations, as well as the privacy regulation and industry standards applicable to them, [23andMe] did not introduce, implement or maintain proper or adequate data retention and data protection practices," reads the lawsuit.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #23andme #23 and me #class action #class action lawsuit #data protection #data security #privacy #data privacy

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

Just read through a bit of The Meet Group's privacy policy for Live. (That being the parent company Tumblr is using to make it work.) It's so long and complicated of course no one is going to look through the whole thing — but there's a clause specifying that you have to agree to arbitration in the case of legal disputes, and that limits you to possibly not being allowed to be involved in class action lawsuits against the company? And there's more... details and stuff... but my brain just starts fogging over after a point here.

I already thoughtlessly agreed to the policy to make the little "NEW" icon go away, so I found the link in the policy to this form requesting exercising certain data protection rights and sent them an email requesting to opt out of it all.

I'm not... a legal professional, and like I said the brain fog took over trying to process the details, but it feels insidious to force you to agree to a sketchy privacy policy in order to make that obtrusive little notification icon go away.

Someone with more spoons who knows better add on if you like.

#Tumblr live #Tumblrlive #The meet group #class action #privacy #brain fog

[indiesellersguild]

Etsy’s Plan to Prevent Class Action Lawsuits

Did you know that when you agree to Etsy’s Terms of Use, you agree never to join in a class action lawsuit against them, no matter what they do?

At least, that’s how it used to be. Until very recently, Etsy had a mandatory arbitration clause. It stated that by using their service (or continuing to use their service) we automatically agree that any disputes we have with them will be handled individually by the private arbitration company that they have chosen.

They’re making a change to their arbitration clause – as outlined in their recent email, “A quick update on our terms of use & policies”...

Read the full blog post on our website for further details and calls to action.

#blog post #indie sellers guild #etsy #Labor rights #class action #class action lawsuit #indie sellers #etsy sellers

[newsfromstolenland]

A Chatham, Ont. mother is spearheading a class action lawsuit alleging a company that collected $14 million in investments from members of her community was actually a Ponzi scheme that fed nearly a third of its funds to Ontario’s self-described ‘crypto king’ Aiden Pleterski.

“It’s definitely been overwhelming,” Emily Hime, the 31-year-old mother, told CTV News Toronto in an interview earlier this month. “The financial stress of it all, it’s impacted my family life quite significantly.”

The class action, filed at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in May, is representing 125 people who invested with Banknote Capital Inc. after a whistleblower from the company filed a complaint to the Ontario Securities Commission in early 2023 alleging the owner pocketed investments. The lawsuit is ultimately aiming to trace and preserve assets with the goal of redistributing money to investors.

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#mine #cdnpoli #canadian news #canadian politics #canada #ontario #chatham #ponzi scheme #fraud #investments #ontario securities commission #banknote capital inc #aiden pleterski #ryan rumble #class action lawsuit #class action #legal #law

[masgwi]

The U.S. government successfully argued in Quebec Superior Court last August that the country couldn't be sued for the project known as MK-ULTRA, allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA.

U.S. lawyers argued that foreign states had absolute immunity from lawsuits in Canada between the 1940s and 1960s, when the program took place.

But survivors (and their families) of the experiments at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute — which included experimental drugs, rounds of electroshocks and sleep deprivation — appealed that decision.

#mk ultra #cia #usa #canada #canadian law #class action #class action lawsuit #brainwashing #human experimentation #mind control #allan memorial institute #law

[zwoelffarben]

Thank you to the mutual who put this youtube video in my DMs.

Don't mind the clickbait thumbnail. The video is an explaination of what machine learned image generating algorythms are, a brief overview on how they work, what suit is being brought against them, and what defense the owers of the MLIGAs will like use.

The one thing the lawyer doesn't mention that I think should be considered in this case is how it's been ruled that qualifying for copyright requires 'human authorship,' which it's been found by US courts that algorythmically generated images lack in their entirety.

This is relevant because the defense the owners of the MLIGAs is likely going to be Fair Use, andso the crux of their argument will be whether the images generated by their copyright infringement machine are transformative or derivative in nature; and it's my interpretation of the law that transformativity requires human authorship, a thing AI generated images have been found to legally lack.

#Youtube #ai art #fair use #legal battle #class action #stable diffussion #midjourney

[pancakeke]

Posting because I initially joined this lawsuit because I saw it here on tumblr, and also this is the first news I've heard about this thing in a long time.

If any of you joined that Illinois class action lawsuit against Facebook for illegal use of biometric (in this case facial recognition) data, watch your mail and do not throw out any envelopes that look like this or are sent from this address. My husband just today got a check for nearly $400 as part of the settlement.

More info about the lawsuit and settlement here. But the jist is: you had to sign up by November 23, 2020 to enter a claim. Checks started mailing out on May 9, 2021. The checks are for between $200 and $400.

#where is my check tho #facebook #class action #lawsuits #current events

[prospitianescapee]

If you are a person who, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, inclusive, were a Facebook User in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button, you may be eligible for a payment from a Class Action Settlement.

A Settlement has been reached between Defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc. (“Meta” or “Defendant”) and Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

You are included in this Settlement as a Settlement Class Member if, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011 inclusive, you were a Facebook User in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button.

(Check your spam folders before filling out the form - you may have gotten an email with a claim number that'll speed the process up.)

#facebook #meta #mark zuckerberg #class action #class action lawsuit #class action settlement #the law

[retcongames]

I was selected as one of The Game Awards Future Class!

#the game awards #future class #TGA future class #game of the year #video games #gaming #gamedev #class action

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Fisher River Cree Nation wants class-action status for its lawsuit against the federal government, which alleges the $5 annuities paid to Treaty 5 First Nations over the last 148 years violate the agreement because they don't keep up with inflation. The First Nation wants to represent all Treaty 5 nations and their members who opt in to the class action. Stefan Lorne Cochrane, a former chief and band councillor of Fisher River, would be the lead plaintiff, according to the statement of claim filed at the Manitoba Court of King's Bench on Dec. 12. In the suit, Fisher River claims the Crown breached its obligations under Treaty 5 by failing to regularly increase the $5 annuities to maintain their value at the time of the document's 1875 signing.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #first nations #indigenous #cree nation #fisher river cree nation #class action

[infatuatedlilbitch]

I'm tired of corporations just getting fined. Money doesn't matter. Change the laws and make those motherfuckers fix the problems they have caused. A fine is just a payment to be above the law. I want a healthy planet full of healthy humans! Not twenty dollars in a class action lawsuit.

#climate change #class action #capitalism #money #if the rich ain't gonna change then you know it's nom time

[ebookporn]

Amazon class action over bookseller collusion should not be trimmed, magistrate says

An Illinois shop has lodged a class action lawsuit against Amazon and other top five publishers claiming they conspired to drive up book prices and put small stores out of business.  

A New York judge recommended that the court not dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by an Illinois bookstore against Amazon and other top five publishers, claiming they conspired to drive up book prices and put small stores out of business.  

U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo filed the recommendation Sept. 7, saying Amazon and the publishers’ motion to dismiss was premature.

The defendants, along with Amazon, include the Big 5 publishers — HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan.

The class action claims Amazon contracts with the top five publishers for early releases and exclusive deals on print books, which is anticompetitive.

In the most recent recommendation, Judge Figueredo said that to strike class claims before the class certification stage, the defendants would have to show that it would be impossible to certify the class regardless of any facts the bookstore may be able to obtain during discovery.

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#amazon #bookstores #class action #book publishers #retail #ecommerce

[anamon-book]

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#class action #訴訟 #chanter cine1 #michael apted #マイケル・アプテッド #gene hackman #mary elizabeth mastrantonio #メアリー・エリザベス・マストラントニオ #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #映画パンフレット #movie pamphlet

[whatevergreen]

"Mars didn’t tell customers its Dove dark chocolate products contain unsafe levels of lead and cadmium, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Arlene Millman filed the class action complaint against Mars Inc. on Jan. 5 in a New York federal court, alleging violations of state and federal consumer laws. 

According to the lawsuit, Mars makes the product Dove Promises Deeper Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao.

However, according to a December 2022 report by Consumer Reports, certain dark chocolate bars, including the Dove product named in the lawsuit, have high enough levels of lead and cadmium that “eating just an ounce a day would put an adult over a level that public health authorities and … experts say may be harmful.”

Consumers are not warned of this fact by the label on the product packaging, the lawsuit alleges."

The Report:

"Could be"?! That's not how the article reads. It's apparently in all dark chocolate, and at high levels in such brands as Lindt, Hershey's, Dove, Godiva.

And why is there heavy metals in our cocoa (and other foods)?

"The researchers found that cacao plants take up cadmium from the soil, with the metal accumulating in cacao beans as the tree grows. That’s similar to how heavy metals contaminate some other foods."

And why is it in the soil? Almost entirely due to pollution from industry, transport, and intensive agricultural practises.

"But lead seems to get into cacao after beans are harvested. The researchers found that the metal was typically on the outer shell of the cocoa bean, not in the bean itself. Moreover, lead levels were low soon after beans were picked and removed from pods but increased as beans dried in the sun for days. During that time, lead-filled dust and dirt accumulated on the beans. “We collected beans on the ground that were heavily loaded with lead on the outer shell,” DiBartolomeis says."

A lot of cocoa beans are dried beside or even on roads because (the mostly impoverished, exploited) farmers don't have the space to do otherwise.

------------------------------------ Another lawsuit in July last year also challenged the titanium dioxide levels in Skittles, due to the coloring. This was widely reported, however the lawsuit was quietly dismissed in November.

How can anyone trust companies to do anything when they continue to operate like this?

#chocolate #cocoa #class action #environment #food

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 4, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

For all that they have tried to argue that the midterm election is a referendum on President Joe Biden’s handling of the nation’s high inflation, House Republicans today released a 1050-page “report” laying out their priorities for what they expect will be their takeover of the House. The report begins as an attack on the FBI, claiming it has been politicized under the Biden administration and is now “broken.” It goes on to echo years of complaints from former president Trump, from his insistence that the FBI “spied on” his 2016 campaign through his complaints about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago to recover classified documents he took with him when he left office. Only the first 50 pages of the report are new prose. Kate Riga of Talking Points Memo read the rest and noted that about 1000 of the pages simply reprint letters Republican representatives have sent to members of the Biden administration, including 93 copies of a 5-page letter they sent to U.S. attorneys. The House Republicans’ plan was apparently to grab headlines with an apparently big “report” and make people uneasy about the Biden administration. The document makes it clear that their priorities if they take the House will be to investigate Hunter Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the evacuation of Afghanistan, immigration policies, and, perhaps above all, Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ). But the report is a self-own in that it makes clear that the Republicans have no intention of actually trying to deal with inflation and are instead going to push the investigations that keep their grievances before the media and feed their base. The House Republicans’ decision to double down on Trump just before the election shows exactly how they plan to govern after it. Leaders like Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would like to downplay the role of the former president and keep voters focused instead on the economy, an issue on which they feel they can make headway as the world is still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. But extremists in the House are signaling that they are all in for Trump. Indeed, the timing of the House Republicans’ warning that they plan to launch numerous investigations might well be an attempt to protect the former president by taking the spotlight off Trump’s growing legal troubles. Today, the former president’s allies told media outlets that shortly after the midterm election, Trump expects to announce that he is running for president in 2024. Knowing he is a lightning rod, Republicans have wanted him to stay out of the spotlight before the midterms, but he now has a reason—aside from the fact that he can never seem to abide being in the shadows—to announce his candidacy. As Maggie Haberman of the New York Times tweeted: “Trump is facing multiple investigations that his advisers anticipate will heat up again after next week’s midterms, particularly into the documents held for no clear explicable reason at Mar-a-Lago. His advisers say he thinks DOJ will move differently if he’s a candidate.” (The Department of Justice has said its procedures will not be affected by any such announcement.) Trump’s dangling of a presidential bid is almost certainly related to his looming legal troubles. Yesterday, his ally Kash Patel testified with limited immunity before a grand jury investigating the handling of the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago, meaning he had the option of testifying honestly without penalties or lying and risking perjury charges on this topic. Patel has maintained he is a hostile witness, but there is reason to think he will not shield Trump. Constitutional lawyer and law professor Laurence Tribe commented: “This will break the dam.” Also, today was the deadline for Trump to produce documents for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the committee this evening announced that it was in conversation with Trump’s lawyers about that production. It continued: “We have informed Trump’s counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for testimony starting on November 14th.” And the January 6th committee has continued its interviews, recently talking to the Secret Service agents who were in the presidential motorcade on January 6, 2021. Trump has clearly made the calculation that his own interests are best served by teasing the idea of his running for office, despite the fact that many national Republican lawmakers have hoped he would keep his head down. It is not clear that the idea of a resurgence of Trump will motivate Republican voters. Indeed, so far, election data for next week’s election is not showing the red wave that media has recently tried to argue was in the offing. Pollsters Simon Rosenberg and Tom Bonier both have focused less on polls and more on the early vote, which so far has shown Democrats overperforming. Races are still very close, but the idea of a red wave appears to be premature. The results of the election will come down to voter turnout. In the midst of all this drama, the social media site Twitter, which was recently acquired by entrepreneur Elon Musk, appears to be imploding. Advertisers are fleeing, and this morning the company fired a raft of employees, apparently illegally in many jurisdictions because he did not give them the warning that laws require. They are now suing. This afternoon, Jeff Seldin, the national security correspondent for Voice of America News, tweeted that two organizations representing state election officials who have used Twitter to get out reliable election information, including the National Association of State Election Directors, are watching Twitter’s changes with concern. The mass layoffs cut the teams dedicated to fighting election disinformation and communicating with campaign staff and journalists. Further, it currently appears that account verification, which makes it clear if an account is official or not, will end on Monday, the day before the election.

—

Notes:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-judiciary-republican-report-fbi

Mike Sington @MikeSington🚨Ben Collins, NBC News: “Twitter employees want to stress that the company is a nightmare right now and you cannot work there. And the website is built on sticks and it might fall apart. It’s a house of cards.” “Elon is deeply out of his depth.” “This could be really bad.”

7:30 PM ∙ Nov 4, 20227,898Likes2,926Retweets

January 6th Committee @January6thCmteWe have received correspondence from the former President and his counsel regarding the committee's subpoena. We have informed Trump’s counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for testimony starting on November 14th.

11:56 PM ∙ Nov 4, 202217,854Likes4,130Retweets

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/secret-service-motorcade-january-6/index.html

Jeff Seldin @jseldinDEVELOPING: Two organizations representing state election officials tells @VOANews they are watching developments with Twitter closely as elections officials have relied heavily on the social media platform to get out reliable information for #Election2022

8:09 PM ∙ Nov 4, 202225Likes15Retweets

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYTNB: Trump is facing multiple investigations that his advisers anticipate will heat up again after next week’s midterms, particularly into the documents held for no clear explicable reason at Mar-a-Lago. His advisers say he thinks DOJ will move differently if he’s a candidate

2:52 PM ∙ Nov 4, 2022221Likes47Retweets

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/kash-patel/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-sued-layoffs-days-elon-musk-purchase-rcna55619

Laurence Tribe @tribelawThis will break the dam. Frank Figliuzzi @FrankFigliuzzi1New: Patel will talk - Top Trump advisor granted immunity for testifying in Mar-a-Lago papers case | Donald Trump | The Guardian  https://t.co/ALflXj4IG9

1:11 AM ∙ Nov 3, 202213,323Likes2,905Retweets

Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDCThis early vote data is a *repudiation* of red wave narrative. The early vote actually got more D this week. 4 states - AZ, NC, TX, WA - moved 4-5 points more in recent days. Movement is towards us, not Rs. Embrace of red wave was wildly premature. 5/ Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDCThe red wave didn't show up in the 5 House specials. It didn't show up in Kansas. It isn't showing up in the early vote. It isn't showing up in the Senate battlegrounds. It may come, but it's not here yet. https://t.co/2vaUA81MbT

1:03 PM ∙ Nov 4, 2022939Likes242Retweets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/05/twitter-layoffs-election-impact/

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[From comments]

TCinLA

Writes Thats Another Fine Mess

"We need to step into the calm eye of the storm, and steer by the stars, to imagine in rich detail, the biggest, most delicious, satisfying, inclusive future that we can, a great flowering of human potential and wellbeing, project our hearts and minds into that future, and then spend our lives walking toward it, and each time the weather buffets us, wait for a glimpse of sky, find that bright point of light, and adjust our course.

"Don’t waver. Don’t let despair sink its sharp teeth Into the throat with which you sing. Escalate your dreams. Make them burn so fiercely that you can follow them down any dark alleyway of history and not lose your way. Make them burn clear as a starry drinking gourd Over the grim fog of exhaustion, and keep walking."

Aurrora Levins Morales (via Dahlia Lithwick)

#midterms #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #American Politics #Corrupt GOP #Criminal GOP #twitter #class action #DOJ #Rule of Law

[sheerioswifties]

No but fr so I've been away for a few days (trying to figure out how to make rent and other super fun adulting stuff) besides the lawsuits what else did I miss

#life is really really really extra emotionally abusive #she got that one so right and timely #anyways see my post below i want in on the lawsuits #gotta find the swifties doing it and their lawyers and get in contact #class action #pls hmu if you're one of them or know who #I'm in #sue ticketmaster #update #Dec 4 #oh god the runoff is tomorrow tempus fugit