Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday filed a lawsuit against Snap Inc. (owner-operators of Snapchat) alleging the social media company fails to warn users of the platform’s addictiveness and protect children from compulsive use. In the complaint filed this week in Philadelphia County Court, the AG’s Office is seeking honesty from Snapchat about how its platform appears…

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The FTC, joined by five states, announced it will enter a stipulated order that resolves its litigation against Zillow and Redfin by removing a key term of Zillow and Redfin’s 2025 agreement, under which Zillow paid Redfin $100 million for Redfin to shut down its internet listing services (ILS) business, exclusively repost apartment listings provided…

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Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers secured a settlement with Resideo Technologies Inc. and ADI Global Distribution LLC, which sell home camera products manufactured by Chinese companies Dahua and Hikvision, on resolving allegations that the companies failed to disclose ties to the Chinese Communist Party and that the products allegedly contain vulnerabilities, including remote access flaws and allowing unauthorized parties to access live and recorded audio and video footage, that pose a risk to national security.

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Alabama AG Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged lack of oversight and adequate safeguards in the hacking of Hugging Face, another AI company. The investigation comes after Alabama participated in a multi-state coalition letter sent earlier this month demanding transparency and accountability from OpenAI regarding the incident.…

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The FTC announced that online bill payment firm Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle FTC allegations that the company and two of its co-founders used misleading search ads to impersonate consumers’ billers and misled consumers about millions of dollars in fees they tacked on to consumers’ bills. In a 2024 complaint, the FTC alleged…

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