A Bad Month for Antitrust, Chatbot JCCP Looms, and More in Tech Litigation.
The Tech Litigation Roundup gathers and briefly analyzes notable lawsuits and court decisions across a variety of tech-and-law issues. This month’s roundup covers the following cases:
- F.T.C. v. Meta (D.D.C. Case No. 20-3590 (JEB)) – Meta won a major victory over FTC antitrust enforcers, successfully arguing that it does not hold a social networking monopoly.
- OpenAI Cases – Seven new product liability actions against OpenAI – Victims and their families sued OpenAI for psychological harm they alleged was caused by ChatGPT, raising the possibility of a chatbot mass tort action.
- TikTok v. Bonta (N.D. Ca. Case No. 3:25-cv-09789), Meta v. Bonta (N.D. Ca. Case No. 3:25-cv-09792), and Google v. Bonta (N.D. Ca. Case No. 5:25-cv-09795) – Major tech companies revived the challenge to California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act in three separate lawsuits.
- Worker Info Exchange letter – The non-profit is gearing up to bring a collective action against Uber for GDPR violations associated with using AI to set wages.
- Amazon.com Services v. Perplexity AI (N.D. Ca. Case No. 3:25-cv-09514-MMC) – Amazon sued Perplexity for using AI agents disguised as human users to access its web store.
- Thele v. Google (N.D. Ca. Case No. 5:25-cv-09704-NC) – A putative class action alleges that Google secretly changed users’ settings to allow Gemini AI to read private communications without notice.
Related litigation is linked throughout the Roundup.
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