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Ride-hailing platform Uber has settled with the US Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers.As part of the agreement, Uber will offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were charged discriminatory fees due to disability."People with disabilities should not be made to feel like second-class citizens or punished because of their disability, which is exactly what Uber's wait time fee policy did," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke…

Image Source : FREEPIK Uber Uber Update: Uber, a ride-hailing platform has recently settled with the US Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers. As part of the agreement, Uber will now offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were charged discriminatory fees due to disability. "People with disabilities should not be made to feel like second-class citizens or punished because of their disability, which is exactly what Uber's wait…

Uber has settled with the Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers, the DOJ announced in a press release on Monday. As part of the agreement, Uber will credit double the total wait fees issued to the 65,000 disabled riders already identified by Uber’s programs and commit more than $2 million to funds for other affected individuals. The claims center on Uber’s wait fee policy, which adds additional fees when a passenger takes more than two minutes to board the car.…

BRUSSELS— Amazon. AMZN 1.08% com Inc. has proposed concessions to settle two antitrust cases against it in the European Union, a fresh sign of changing strategy from big tech companies after the bloc passed a strict new digital-competition law.The U.S.-based online retailer has promised not to use non-public data about sellers on its marketplace, after the EU accused Amazon of violating competition law by using non-public information from merchants to compete against…

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev (Getty Images)Small app developers pried $90 million from Google in a legal settlement announced Friday, hot on the heels of a similar agreement with Apple. In a blog post Friday, Google said it had agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit with app developers who claim the Android maker abused its market dominance to unfairly charge them a 30% fee for in-app purchases made via the Play Store. Though the major settlement marks a short-term win for developers, critics told Gizmodo that…

Google has finally reached a settlement for a 2021 class-action antitrust lawsuit, resulting in the company owing $90 million to U.S.-based app developers. The suit alleged that the Google Play Store’s 30% cut for all in-app purchases was too high, especially since there aren’t great third-party app store options that devs can use to avoid the fees. Although Google decided in 2021 to half its cut of in-app purchases to 15% for the first $1 million made by a developer, it’s also offering a potentially big payout for…

On Wednesday, Bighit music released a statement on Weverse BTS/Instagram On Wednesday, Bighit music released a statement on Weverse, about legal proceedings against those violating BTS‘s rights. This includes defamation, ill-intentioned criticism, sexual harassment, etc.The statement read, Hello. This is BIGHIT MUSIC, Our company regularly initiates legal proceedings against perpetrators of malicious activities…

Amber Heard & Johnny Depp Getty Images Remix By Keane Eacobellis A judge has finalized the judgment of the dueling defamation lawsuits that unfolded in a highly publicized trial between celebrities and ex-spouses, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, rather than the two parties reaching an alternative, agreed-upon settlement. Though a jury reached a verdict earlier this month, finding that both parties defamed each other, Judge Penney Azcarate did not “enter the jury verdict into the docket” on June 1, according to…

Meta has just announced a settlement with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that will change the way they deliver housing ads to people in the US.  The new method is called the “variance reduction system” and is designed to make sure the audience that sees the housing ads more accurately reflects the eligible target market for that ad.  In 2018 a lawsuit was filed against meta by the HUD alleging that Facebook violated the Fair Housing Act based on target…

In a rather spectacular conclusion to a lawsuit filed by Bungie in August of last year, the owners of the Destiny 2 cheat domains, Veterancheats, LaviCheats, and Elite Boss Tech, will have to pay a settlement totaling roughly $13.5 million in damages. The math of this settlement comes from a fine of $2,000 per violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provisions — 17 US Code Section 1201 a and b — multiplied by the roughly 6,765 unique downloads of the program in question. According to a…