law crime
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Uber Ordered to Pay $1.4 Million After Drivers Discriminated Against Blind Passenger
Uber was ordered to pay more than $US1.1 ($1.4) million on Thursday as part of an arbitration case brought on by a passenger with vision loss saying that she — and her guide dog — were repeatedly denied rides by drivers working for the ride-hailing giant.
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U.S. Indicts 21-Year-Old Accused of Leaking Stolen Data of Disney, Nintendo, and More
U.S. federal prosecutors in Western Washington secured a grand jury indictment on Thursday against a Swiss national accused by the U.S. of hacking dozens of companies and government agencies.
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Indicted CEO of Encrypted Phone Firm Says Drug Charges Are Attack on the ‘Right to Privacy’
Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap, who the U.S. Department of Justice indicted last week for his alleged role in providing encryption tech to international drug cartels, has shot back that the government is targeting him to destroy the “fundamental right to privacy.”
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This Mum Allegedly Created Deepfakes to Bully Her Daughter’s Rivals Off the Cheerleading Squad
Authorities say a Pennsylvania woman anonymously sent her daughter’s cheerleading coaches deepfake photos and videos of rival teammates naked, drinking, or smoking to get them kicked off the squad, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. She also reportedly sent this manipulated content to the teammates themselves and harassed them with texts urging them to commit suicide,…