Wendy Davis reports: A judge has granted preliminary approval to a deal calling for software developer Carrier IQ and several mobile phone manufacturers to pay $9 million to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit. “The settlement agreement is fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the settlement class,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen…
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Manufacturers Settle Class-Action Over Carrier IQ’s ‘Spyware’
Wendy Davis reports: HTC, Samsung and four other mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that they violated consumers’ privacy by pre-installing software created by Carrier IQ, according to court papers filed on Thursday. The settlement details, including any financial terms, are expected to be revealed next month. Read more on…
Carrier IQ Can’t Pause Privacy Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: A judge has rejected an attempt by Carrier IQ and a group of phone manufacturers to delay proceedings in a privacy lawsuit. U.S. District Court Judge Chen in the Northern District of California said in a written ruling that he was “not convinced” that allowing the case to proceed would cause “irreparable…
Carrier IQ Class Action Sent Back to State Court
Laura Brookover writes: Judge Feess of the Central District of California recently rejected Carrier IQ’s attempt to litigate in federal court a class action concerning whether Carrier IQ’s software, installed on a wide range of smart phone devices from many different manufacturers running on various wireless networks, violated California law. Judge Feess remanded the case…