department of justice
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DOJ Says Uber Charged Passengers With Disabilities Illegal ‘Wait Time’ Fees
Uber, which claimed to make a profit in the third quarter if you squint your eyes and ignore the billions of dollars it continues to hemorrhage on a quarterly basis, is facing a Department of Justice lawsuit targeting yet another of its dubious business practices.
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Google Antitrust Lawsuit Aims at the Heart of its $1.4 Trillion Business
After a 16-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, arguing that the company’s search app — which is a permanent, preloaded fixture on Android phones — hurts search competition and disproportionately funnels traffic to Google’s ad business.
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In Ironic Twist, Founder of Cyber Fraud Prevention Startup Gets Arrested on Fraud Charges
That headline sounds like the set-up to a joke, I know, but 2020 has proven time and time again that you can’t make this shit up anymore.
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Report: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro for Child Predator Sting
Facebook security personnel and engineers helped the FBI track down a notorious child predator by helping a third-party company develop an exploit in a security-focused version of the Linux operating system, Tails, per a Wednesday report by Vice. But they did so quietly and without notifying the developers of Tails afterwards of the major security…