Counsel for a group of Android phone users urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to revive a proposed class action alleging that Google's "Lockbox" program secretly collected information about Android owners' non-Google app use, saying the tech giant's privacy policy on the data collection was ambiguous at best.
The government wrapped its defense Tuesday in a California federal bench trial over environmental groups' efforts to ban fluoride in America's drinking water, with the government's final witness acknowledging under cross-examination that fluoride is capable of causing "neurodevelopmental harm."
Data analytics outfit Teradata urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to revive its trade secret and tying claims against software giant SAP, saying a lower court judge wrongly excluded testimony from its expert economist and misconstrued agreements about confidentiality made when the two companies attempted a partnership.
X Corp. and the National Labor Relations Board have failed to reach a mid-hearing deal to end their fight over the firing of a Twitter engineer who urged colleagues to defy CEO Elon Musk's return-to-the-office-or-resign demand, according to an administrative law judge who quipped Wednesday that they got about "as close as trying to get to Mars."
A National Labor Relations Board lawyer told an administrative law judge at a hearing Tuesday that Twitter wrongly fired a female engineer who urged colleagues at the company now called X to challenge CEO Elon Musk's demand that they return to the office or resign, saying she wasn't being insubordinate.