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Twitter will pay $150 million to settle a privacy lawsuit with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The settlement, announced today, covers a complaint that Twitter deceptively used members’ email addresses and phone numbers for targeted advertising. On top of the fine, Twitter must also accept audits of its data privacy program among other restrictions. The legal filing claims that Twitter misrepresented its policies to users between 2013 and 2019, violating both the FTC Act and an order…

As tipped by a Redditor (opens in new tab), Western Digital has started sending out cash payments to class members of the WD Red NAS class action lawsuit. The payout varies from $4 to $7 per hard drive, depending on the hard drive capacity that consumers had purchased.In 2020, consumers discovered that Western Digital was utilizing inferior shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology in the company's WD Red hard drives that cater to NAS devices. The manufacturer later detailed all of its products that used SMR…

It has now been nine years since AT&T introduced the ludicrous “administrative fee” that it tacks on to customers’ bills every month. At first, the fee was under a dollar, but in 2018, the carrier increased the fee to $1.99 a month. BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk noted at the time that the fee would raise AT&T’s annual revenue by $800 million a year. There was hope that a class action lawsuit might force AT&T to rethink its charge. But as The Verge reported this week, it looks like the carrier will…