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Woman sues employer for firing her after she disabled 24×7 monitoring app
Having her location monitored was OK while she was clocked in, she said. But she uninstalled it when she found it was spying even when she had quit the app. 
Woman sues Google after in-app purchases drain her bank account
She’s alleging that Google Play’s inadequate security let crooks siphon thousands of dollars in charges from her account.
Amazon sues sites that sell fake reviews
Amazon is suing four websites that sell fake 4 and 5 star reviews for trademark infringement, false advertising and cybersquatting.
DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records
Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.
Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance
The ACLU has filed a suit on behalf of rights groups against the NSA’s spying program – in particular, its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications, commonly referred to as upstream surveillance. 
LinkedIn settles class action suit over 2012 unsalted password leak
LinkedIn is privately settling the 2012 unsalted password leak. Were you one of the 800,000 affected users? Here’s what you need to know. 
Yelp sues Revleap for claiming it sells good reviews, buries the bad ones
Revleap promises to sell improved ratings to businesses, but Yelp claims that it does nothing but lie and spam both Yelp’s customers and Revleap clients’ customers, dangling gift cards in exchange for writing positive reviews. 
Twitter sues US federal agencies in attempt to remove the gag around surveillance
Twitter doesn’t want its transparency report to be fuzzy to the point of meaninglessness, full of “broad, inexact ranges” about how many times the US government has shaken it down in its surveillance operations, it says – or example, by counting them to the nearest thousand.
Google responds to celebrity lawyer’s $100m nude photo scandal lawsuit threat
Google has responded to a letter written by a lawyer on behalf of a dozen celebrities whose nude photos were stolen and published online.