Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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Former OpenAI staff members have filed court documents supporting Elon Musk's claims that the company has strayed from its charitable mission. The filing comes as OpenAI faces scrutiny over its p [...]
Google has failed to convince the Supreme Court to block the injunction requiring the company to make major changes to the Play Store after it lost its case with Epic Games. The Verge and Reuters have [...]
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Europe’s second-highest court has dismissed a challenge against a data transfer pact between the European Union and the US. "On the date of adoption of the contested decision, the United States [...]