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    Street Talk for January 9, 2015

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    Kevin Berlandi, probably best known for his feature film work as assistant director on Transformers, has joined The Cavalry Productions for representation as a commercial director….

    Treehouse has added editor Jason Payne who is well known in the Dallas advertising community through previous posts with Fast Cuts, N2O and The Richards Group. He becomes Treehouse’s fourth editor, joining founder Peter Tarter, Jayson Limmer and John McStravick. (The company’s key staff also includes Executive Producer Jeremy Besser and finishing editor Bryan Bayley.) Payne brings more than a dozen years of experience as a commercial editor and a reel that includes work for H-E-B, Red Lobster, Georgia Power, Firestone, and McDonald’s….

    Visual effects supervisor Jon Massey, a two-time Emmy nominee, has joined Burbank, Calif.-based FuseFX. In his first project with the studio, Massey is serving as VFX supervisor for Turn, the Revolutionary War series now in its second season on AMC. With more than 10 years of experience as a visual effects supervisor and producer, Massey brings expertise in pre-production visual effects design and planning, on-set visual effects supervision and visual effects production. Massey comes to FuseFX from Zoic Studios where he served as a visual effects supervisor for nearly a decade. His work there included seven seasons of True Blood, as well as the series Angel and Over There. He earned Emmy Award nominations for his work on the pilots for Hemlock Grove and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Massey got his start as a camera assistant and made the transition to visual effects at 525 Post Production, Hollywood….

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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