On Thursday, the Oakland, CA-based Center For Environmental Health (CEH) filed a suit against 26 cosmetic companies, claiming the beauty brands have been misleading the public with their misuse of the term "organic." Even though the California Organic Products Act of 2003 states that any product with an "organic" label on the front must consist of 70 percent organic ingredients (and those with Read more

Remember all of the issues that the iPhone 3G suffered after users updated to iOS 4.0? Phones became incredibly slow and buggy, and in some cases unusable. And, since it's not possible to downgrade your OS (at least, not in a way Apple recognizes), 3G users were stuck with slow and difficult-to-use phones. Now a new lawsuit alleges that Apple knew updating an iPhone 3G would cause problems. The Read more

Yesterday, Gmail users received an email from Google that lead with: "Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are making an exception . . . " Apparently Google has finalized the settlement in the Buzz lawsuit filed earlier this year after some users complained that Google's Buzz violated user privacy. Find out more about the disclosure, suit, and settlement after the break. Read more

You probably already know that the emails you send at work are subject to company scrutiny. Your employer has a right to track emails you send from your work account and that information isn't really private. But what about your cell phone? Well, if your employer covers the bill on your cell, it turns out the texts you send and receive on it aren't all that private either. The case of City of Read more

What's not to love about Google Maps? I use it frequently for driving and biking directions, though I've yet to use it to map out an unfamiliar walking route. Despite its usefulness, one Los Angeles woman is suing Google over walking directions it provided her during a recent trip to Utah. Apparently when she searched for walking directions between two relatively close points, it suggested a busy Read more

Netflix just announced that they're cancelling their second $1 million prize amid privacy concerns. The contest was a successor to the company's first algorithm-improvement competition, which lasted three years. The current contest came under fire when a lawsuit claimed the first competition violated privacy laws. A woman sued Netflix in December for invasion of privacy, saying they disclosed Read more

Apple has thrown down the gauntlet to HTC today, filing a lawsuit claiming that the company is infringing on 20 of its patents, including the iPhone's user interface, hardware, and pretty much anything pertaining to its multitouch technology. It wasn't too long ago that Apple itself was involved in a legal battle regarding multitouch — only that time, another company claimed Apple was the one Read more

I'll admit I was shocked when The Biggest Loser trainer and Fit favorite Jillian Michaels start endorsing a line of supplements. Many of you thought it could potentially damage her reputation, and it looks you might have been right. Michaels and her supplements are now the target of a class action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, claiming that the Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control Read more