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A former Facebook employee says he was fired for raising concerns about a new company protocol that allowed staff to access deleted user data and share the information with law enforcement.

A former class of school students was told by a federal judge they can pursue a lawsuit against PeopleConnect after their yearbook photos were published without their permission on the company's social networking site Classmates.com.

Meta has announced that it has filed separate legal actions in federal court against a company and an individual who scraped data from Facebook and Instagram.

Los Angeles Lakers player Kendrick Nunn has been sued for copyright infringement by the same photographer who recently settled a copyright infringement legal battle with Nunn's superstar teammate, LeBron James.

A longstanding dispute over the custody of photos of Prince made it to a federal appeals court last month after the late artist's personal photographer claimed his images were illegally used and stolen by his collaborators.

A photographer has sued Google for copyright infringement alleging that YouTube failed to remove his unauthorized images from the website.

A court has ruled that Harvard University can be sued over a series of photographs that depict enslaved people by a woman who is a descendent of the subjects.

A judge has thrown out a class-action lawsuit against Ricoh that alleged its Pentax digital camera was designed with a defect that caused photos to come out pitch black.

Google has agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement of a class action lawsuit in Illinois. Residents of the state are able to claim money from the suit if they appeared on Google Photos between 2015 and 2022.

RED has sued Nikon for illegally copying its data compression technology. The lawsuit asserts that Nikon infringed on its patents through capabilities granted to the Nikon Z9 in the recent firmware 2.0 update.

California may soon hold social media companies responsible for the harm caused to children who become addicted to their products thanks to a new bill that passed the state Assembly.

McDonald’s and Wendy’s are being sued by a New York man who claims that advertisements for their burgers look much bigger than they actually are.

Reality TV star Bethenny Frankel has been sued for copyright infringement after allegedly posting an image of storm-ravaged Puerto Rico on her Instagram account without permission from the photographer.

A judge has tossed the defamation portion of a Los Angeles-based photographer's lawsuit that was based on a run-in with Hillary Duff in 2020 where she posted a video on social media and called him a "creep."

The photographer who faced strong criticism for charging extra to take photos of plus-sized models has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against the agent and model that publicized his test shoot rates.

A group of customers has filed a lawsuit against the fast-food chain Burger King alleging that the company's advertising photos make the food look bigger than what they were served up in reality.

A documentary photographer has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security, alleging that during a protest in 2020, they threw him onto a gas canister that exploded beneath him, causing third-degree burns.

In 2017, Cassie De Pecol broke two Guinness World Records and gained recognition in the National Woman's History Museum as the first woman on record to travel to every country in the world. Except, she very likely wasn't.

A federal judge has overturned the stringent drone laws in Texas, citing that it is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. The lawsuit challenging the law was brought in 2019 by the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA).

The United States Supreme Court has announced that it plans to hear The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, whose ultimate ruling will have a massive impact on the visual arts community with regard to fair use.

The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta for its use of facial recognition, alleging Facebook collected the biometric data of millions of Texans without consent. The state is reportedly seeking damages that could exceed $500 billion.

A Connecticut mother has filed a lawsuit against Instagram, through its parent company Meta, as well as Snapchat for their alleged role in her daughter's suicide that was linked to "extreme addiction" to the platforms.

A judge has dismissed Spencer Elden's lawsuit which alleged Nirvana violated federal child pornography statutes when it published the iconic "Nirvana Baby" as the cover of its "Nevermind" Album.

A TikTok moderator has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, claiming that the daily exposure to graphic videos has left her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She is demanding that the social media giant set up a medical fund for its moderators.

A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Christian wedding photographer who claimed that providing services to same-sex couples goes against her faith and that New York's human rights law violates her First Amendment rights.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the photographer who shot the iconic photo of Uma Thurman on the poster for Pulp Fiction, saying he waited too long to file for copyright infringement.

Facebook, now Meta thanks to a recent restructure, is facing a lawsuit by the now-defunct photo app Phhhoto, which claims Mark Zuckerberg and his team downloaded the app and pushed it out of business by copying its main feature.

University students in China have sued Apple for not including a charging brick with the iPhone 12 Pro Max, which follows a $2 million fine the company incurred from Brazil over the same issue.

Canon USA is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit that alleges that the company doesn't allow owners of certain printers to use the scan or fax functions if the device runs out of ink.