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Federal regulators permanently closed a company that exploited vulnerable sextortion victims, charging them up to $20,000 for services often never delivered. Free alternatives exist to help victims remove intimate images from the internet.
Over 640,000 Grubhub drivers and customers are getting checks in the mail after the company settled federal charges over misleading claims and unfair practices. The $23.8 million payout marks a major win for workers and consumers seeking accountability from gig economy platforms.
Farmers can now fix their own John Deere equipment without paying premium prices to authorized dealers. A new 10-year settlement requires the tractor giant to share repair tools and software with equipment owners and independent mechanics.
A marketing company that scared millions by claiming it could listen through smartphones to target ads just settled with federal regulators. The good news? It was all fake, and now they're paying the price for lying to customers.
Three companies just paid nearly $1 million for lying about secretly listening to people through their phones. Turns out, the "creepy" technology they were selling to businesses never actually worked.
Following an FTC investigation, AI company Clarifai deleted 3 million dating profile photos and the facial recognition models trained on them. The move marks a rare accountability win for user privacy in the tech industry.