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  • Details from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Snap show site failed to act on reports of sextortion

    Details from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Snap show site failed to act on reports of sextortion

    Snapchat failed to act on “rampant” reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its platform, according to a newly unredacted complaint against the company filed by New Mexico’s attorney general.

    Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the original complaint on Sept. 4, but internal messages and other details were heavily redacted. Tuesday’s filing unveils internal messages among Snap Inc. employees and executives that provide “further confirmation that Snapchat’s harmful design features create an environment that fosters sextortion, sexual abuse and unwanted contact from adults to minors,” Torrez said in a news release.

    For instance, former trust and safety employees complained there was “pushback” from management when they tried to add safety mechanisms, according to the lawsuit. Employees also noted that user reports on grooming and sextortion — persuading a person to send explicit photos online and then threatening to make the images public unless the victim pays money or engages in sexual favors — were falling through the cracks. At one point, an account remained active despite 75 reports against it over mentions of “nudes, minors and extortion.”

    Snap said in a statement that its platform was designed “with built-in safety guardrails” and that the company made “deliberate design choices to make it difficult for strangers to discover minors on our service.”

    “We continue to evolve our safety mechanisms and policies, from leveraging advanced technology to detect and block certain activity, to prohibiting friending from suspicious accounts, to working alongside law enforcement and government agencies, among so much more,” the company said.

    According to the lawsuit, Snap was well aware, but failed to warn parents, young users and the public that “sextortion was a rampant, ‘massive,’ and ‘incredibly concerning issue’ on Snapchat.”

    A November 2022 internal email from a trust and safety employee says Snapchat was getting “around 10,000” user reports of sextortion each month.

    “If this is correct, we have an incredibly concerning issue on our hands, in my humble opinion,” the email continues.

    Another employee replied that it’s worth noting that the number likely represents a “small fraction of this abuse,” since users may be embarrassed and because sextortion is “not easy to categorize” when trying to report it on the site.

    Torrez filed the lawsuit against Santa Monica, California-based Snap Inc. in state court in Santa Fe. In addition to sexual abuse, the lawsuit claims the company also openly promotes child trafficking and the sale of illicit drugs and guns.

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  • Appeals court reinstates Indiana lawsuit against TikTok alleging child safety, privacy concerns

    Appeals court reinstates Indiana lawsuit against TikTok alleging child safety, privacy concerns

    INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the video-sharing platform’s level of inappropriate content for children and the security of its consumers’ personal information.

    In a 3-0 ruling issued Monday, a three-judge panel of the state appeals court reversed two November 2023 decisions by an Allen County judge which dismissed a pair of lawsuits the state had filed in December 2022 against TikTok.

    Those suits, which have been consolidated, allege the app contains “salacious and inappropriate content” despite the company claiming it is safe for children 13 years and under. The litigation also argues that the app deceives consumers into believing their sensitive and personal information is secure.

    In November’s ruling, Allen Superior Court Judge Jennifer L. DeGroote found that her court lacked personal jurisdiction over the case and reaffirmed a previous court ruling which found that downloading a free app does not count as a consumer transaction under the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.

    But in Monday’s ruling, Judge Paul Mathias wrote on behalf of the appeals court that TikTok’s millions of Indiana users and the $46 million in Indiana-based income the company reported in 2021 create sufficient contact between the company and the state to establish the jurisdiction of Indiana’s courts over TikTok, The Times of Northwest Indiana reported.

    Mathias also wrote that TikTok’s business model of providing access to its video content library in exchange for the personal data of its Indiana users counts as a “consumer transaction” under the law, even if no payment is involved.

    “The plain and ordinary definition of the word ‘sale,’ which is not otherwise defined in the DCSA, includes any consideration to effectuate the transfer of property, not only an exchange for money,” Mathias wrote.

    “It is undisputed that TikTok exchanges access to its app’s content library for end-user personal data. That is the bargain between TikTok and its end-users. And, under the plain and ordinary use of the word, that is a ‘sale’ of access to TikTok’s content library for the end-user’s personal data. TikTok’s business model is therefore a consumer transaction under the DCSA.”

    A spokesperson for the Indiana Attorney General’s office said Tuesday in a statement that the appeals court “took a common sense approach and agreed with our office’s argument that there’s simply no serious question that Indiana has established specific personal jurisdiction over TikTok.”

    “By earning more $46 million dollars from Hoosier consumers in 2021, TikTok is doing business in the state and is therefore subject to this lawsuit,” the statement adds.

    The Associated Press left a message Tuesday afternoon for a lead attorney for TikTok seeking comment on the appeals court’s ruling.

    TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. The app has been a target over the past year of state and federal lawmakers who say the Chinese government could access the app’s users’ data.

    Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has repeatedly personally urged Hoosiers to ”patriotically delete″ the TikTok app due to its supposed ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

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  • Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional

    Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional

    Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago.

    The complaint, filed Thursday at a federal court in San Antonio, mirrors legal arguments the tech giant made in front of the agency earlier this year after NLRB prosecutors accused the company of maintaining policies that made it challenging for workers to organize and retaliating against some who did so.

    In the new legal filing, attorneys for Amazon pointed back to a lawsuit the agency filed against the company in March 2022, roughly a week before voting for a union election was set to begin at a company warehouse in the New York borough of Staten Island.

    Amazon views the agency’s lawsuit, which sought to force the company to give a union organizer his job back, as improperly influencing the outcome of the election. The company has also cited the action as one of its objections to the historic election, where workers voted in favor of union representation for the first time in the U.S.

    Last month, the NLRB’s board denied Amazon’s appeal to review its objections, closing off any options for the company to get the election results overturned within the agency.

    In its new complaint, Amazon said the four NLRB board members who authorized the injunction were later judges reviewing the objections that came before them. It argued that structure was unconstitutional because board members are shielded from removal by the president, violates Amazon’s due process rights as well as right to a jury trial.

    Other companies, such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, have also challenged the structure of the agency in pending lawsuits or administrative cases. Kayla Blado, spokesperson for the NLRB General Counsel noted that while big companies have sought to challenge the NLRB, the Supreme Court in 1937 upheld the agency’s constitutionality.

    “While the current challenges require the NLRB to expend scarce resources defending against them, we’ve seen that the results of these kinds of challenges is ultimately a delay in justice, but that ultimately justice does prevail,” Blado said.

    Earlier this year, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said at an event that the challenges were intended to prevent the agency from enforcing labor laws as companies “divert attention away from the fact that they’re actually law-breakers.”

    Amazon is asking the court to issue an order that stops the agency from pursuing “unconstitutional” administrative proceedings against the company as the case plays out.

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  • OSOM Ex-CPO files lawsuit alleging founder splurged on expensive lifestyle

    OSOM Ex-CPO files lawsuit alleging founder splurged on expensive lifestyle

    ‘OSOM is being hauled to court by its former Chief Privacy Officer. The lawsuit alleges OSOM’s founder and CEO, Jason Keats spent huge sums of money to fund his lavish lifestyle.

    Born from Essential’s ashes, OSOM too headed for financial disaster?

    While OSOM might not be a household name, the Essential Phone would certainly ring a bell. The company behind this minimalist yet fully functional smartphone couldn’t survive and shut down in 2020.

    The tech world celebrated Essential Phone for its design and long-term software support. However, the real-world performance of the device wasn’t up to the mark, and it sold very poorly, forcing Essential to shut shop in 2020.

    OSOM, which the company claims stands for “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” was formed by several of Essential’s former employees. The company promised two smartphones: Saga Phone and OV1. These smartphones were to run Android OS. However, both failed to garner any respectable response and failed.

    OSOM is now in financial trouble, and a former employee has alleged the company’s CEO and founder is at fault. Specifically speaking, OSOM’s founder and “Chief Hooligan,” Jason Keats, kept Essential’s previous founder, Andy Rubin away, but hired several ex-employees of the company.

    Why has OSOM Ex-CPO filed a lawsuit?

    OSOM’s former Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ross has filed a lawsuit against the company. Ross, who left the company in May 2024 according to her LinkedIn profile, has reportedly requested the court to scrutinize OSOSM’s books and records.

    The lawsuit against OSOM, specifically aims to prove financial mismanagement by Jason Keats. Android Authority reviewed the court documents, and it appears Ross claims Keats abused his position in the company to misappropriate funds.

    The lawsuit claims he purchased two Lamborghinis, paid for his racing hobby, paid for his racing partner’s salary, expensed multiple first-class travel tickets, paid his mortgage, and more. Besides these allegations, the lawsuit also claims OSOM is on the brink of a financial collapse.

    Ross has alleged the company’s resources are depleted, and the company would need to raise additional capital just to survive. As expected, OSOM has refuted these allegations. The company assures it will disprove all of the allegations in court.



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