Ex-eBay Motors manager's Sarbanes-Oxley suit extends retaliation claims to his job references
A former eBay Motors manager says in a Sarbanes-Oxley suit that eBay fired him in 2015 for reporting fraud and then sabotaged his next job. His complaint treats those later references as part of the retaliation, so what managers say about a former employee after the exit now sits beside the firing itself.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence35
A class action in the Northern District of California treats consent design as a dated product artifact: the toggle shipped on August 12, the alleged collection started in 2024.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 23%
- Operator
- Operator 56%
- Investor
- Investor 21%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives58
- Confidence66
A federal judge granted LinkedIn's motion to dismiss for lack of standing and gave the plaintiffs leave to amend, while writing in the same order that he doubts they can allege a privacy violation at all. LinkedIn never denied the scanning.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence66
ChatGPT users sue to make OpenAI get consent before contractors read their chats
Two ChatGPT users are suing OpenAI to make human review of chats opt-in, a change that would reach more than 900 million weekly users. Until a court rules, companies should assume staff chats on consumer ChatGPT, with the default setting on, can reach a staffing-firm contractor.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Sony settles its PlayStation Store antitrust case at about $1.34 of credit per account
A judge in San Francisco will decide whether roughly $5.89 million in PlayStation Store credit, spread over 4,407,533 accounts, closes the Sherman Act case over Sony's 2019 decision to stop supplying retail download codes.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives74
- Confidence58
Judge rules the Pentagon cannot punish Anthropic for keeping its use limits
The Defense Department wanted Anthropic's terms rewritten to permit all lawful uses. Anthropic said no, lost federal agencies and contractors for months, and now has a district court calling that ban illegal.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Meta's under-13 data practices go to a jury: 29 AGs, COPPA, and a porous age gate
Twenty-nine state attorneys general are litigating default data collection and age assurance in federal court, after two adverse outcomes against Meta. Age checks are now a liability line item.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
- Confidence55