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T-Mobile reaches $48M settlement with FCC over ‘unlimited’ data claims

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The FCC this morning announced an agreement with T-Mobile that will see the carrier pay a fine and provide a basket of restitution benefits worth a total of $ 48 million for having failed to adequately disclose to its customers that its “unlimited” data plan came with caveats that could result in throttling.

“Consumers should not have to guess whether so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans contain key restrictions, like speed constraints, data caps, and other material limitations,” said FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc in a press release. “When broadband providers are accurate, honest and upfront in their ads and disclosures, consumers aren’t surprised and they get what they’ve paid for.”

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Network World Paul McNamara

Health system’s 4 million patient data breach leads to biggest settlement ever – CNBC

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Health system's 4 million patient data breach leads to biggest settlement ever
CNBC
One of the nation's biggest health-care systems has agreed to pay the largest settlement ever by a single entity for potential violations of federal patient privacy law, related to breaches that compromised the electronic data of 4 million patients …
Advocate to pay $ 5.5 million over data breachChicago Tribune
Advocate Health to pay largest HIPAA settlement everCrain’s Chicago Business
Illinois hospital chain to pay record $ 5.5M for exposing data about…CIO

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Startup CEO agrees to $560K settlement to make long list of fraud allegations go away

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Bob Ambrogi, who writes a terrific blog about technology and the law, today has posted remarkable details of a lawsuit settlement involving the head of a legal startup and a couple who allege he scammed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through, among other means, falsely claiming to be a lawyer, forging legal documents, fabricating court cases and even conjuring up a non-existent judge.

The executive, Derek Bluford – CEO of California Legal Pros and QuickLegal – says in the settlement document that he “does not admit that any of the allegations set forth in the complaint are true or valid.” Ambrogi made that point twice so I will, too. Bluford did agree to pay the plaintiffs, Changming Liu and Aimei Wei, $ 559,330. The couple had enlisted the services of Bluford and California Legal Pros in 2014 to help them evict a tenant.    

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Network World Paul McNamara

Settlement approved in Sony Pictures data breach – Press Herald

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Settlement approved in Sony Pictures data breach
Press Herald
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Wednesday approved a multimillion-dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data breach. The U.S. government blamed …

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