legal

Common legal phrase. Lawful action, such as an agreement consciously agreed to by two or more entities, establishing lawful accountability. For example, an apartment lease legally binds the lessor and the lessee.

Google Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Deceptive Location Tracking
Google Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Deceptive Location Tracking
January 25, 2022  |  Google

In the latest volley against Alphabet’s Google, a lawsuit has been filed alleging the Big Tech giant recorded customers’ locations after users tried to turn...

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Plaid to Pay $58M to Consumers Using Venmo, Robinhood, Other Apps After Collecting too Much Data
Plaid to Pay $58M to Consumers Using Venmo, Robinhood, Other Apps After Collecting too Much...
January 24, 2022  |  Legal

Plaid, a company working to connect consumer bank accounts to services like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase and more, owes lots of people money as part of...

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Restaurant Roundup: Friendly’s to Open Fast-Casual Concept; Starbucks Reverses Course on Vax Mandate
Restaurant Roundup: Friendly’s to Open Fast-Casual Concept; Starbucks Reverses Course on Vax Mandate
January 21, 2022  |  Restaurant Roundup

With consumers’ digital ordering habits proving sticky almost two years after the initial outbreak of the pandemic, brands are readjusting to the new normal. Massachusetts-based,...

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American Airlines, The Points Guy Sue Each Other Over Data Use
American Airlines, The Points Guy Sue Each Other Over Data Use
January 21, 2022  |  Loyalty & Rewards

American Airlines and the travel and loyalty news website The Points Guy (TPG) are suing each other over access to AAdvantage member rewards data. American...

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Wells Fargo Sees Regulatory Order Eliminated as Company Moves Past Account Opening Scandals
Wells Fargo Sees Regulatory Order Eliminated as Company Moves Past Account Opening Scandals
January 20, 2022  |  Bank Regulation

Wells Fargo has had a 2015 regulatory order from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) eliminated, which involved add-on products which Wells...

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Epic Games Mounts New Appeal in Case Against Apple
Epic Games Mounts New Appeal in Case Against Apple
January 20, 2022  |  Legal

Epic Games wants a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling from September that rejected much of the Fortnite maker’s antitrust case against Apple’s App...

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BJ’s Wholesale Club Ditches ADS, Moves Credit Cards to Capital One
BJ’s Wholesale Club Ditches ADS, Moves Credit Cards to Capital One
January 18, 2022  |  Legal

Alliance Data Systems Corp (ADS) has lost BJ’s Wholesale Club as a client, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Jan. 18). The club has...

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Singapore’s MAS: Crypto Firms to Curtail Public Advertising
Singapore’s MAS: Crypto Firms to Curtail Public Advertising
January 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has handed down guidelines advising cryptocurrency firms to curtail advertising its services to the public, according to a MAS...

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Legal Spat Over FinTech Bank Charters Spotlights Deposit Insurance Debate
Legal Spat Over FinTech Bank Charters Spotlights Deposit Insurance Debate
January 17, 2022  |  Banking

The regulatory path forward for FinTechs seeking to offer banking services on a national scale may have gotten a bit clearer, but it hardly seems...

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