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    The directing duo of Chuck Bennett and Clay Williams-formerly a creative team at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles-has landed at Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, for exclusive representationA..Director David Emery, who formerly maintained a Los Angeles-based shop-Emery-in association with bicoastal Giraldi Suarez Productions, has joined bicoastal Bedford Falls for exclusive spot representationA.Director Geoffrey Barish told SHOOT that he is no longer affiliated with Los Angeles-based Morton Jankel Zander (MJZ). He initially linked with that company last year when his shop, Seven Ounce Man, became an MJZ satelliteA. Director Alphonzo J. Wesson III has come aboard Blacktop Films, a Los Angeles-based spot and music video house headed by president/executive producer Matthew Earl Jones. A minority-owned production company, Blacktop is focused primarily on the African-American and Latin marketsA.Cupertino, Calif.-based CANAL+U.S. TECHNOLOGIES, a subsidiary of CANAL+ TECHNOLOGIES, Paris, has partnered with Random/Order, Culver City, Calif., to create enhanced and interactive television applications for advertisers. Under the aegis of chairman/CEO Stuart Gross, Random/Order develops interactive TV strategies and solutions for ad agencies and their clients. The company figures to play a prominent role in U.S. growth for CANAL+TECHNOLOGIES, which is already well established in the European interactive TV marketplace. Meanwhile other strategic international relationships are in the offing for Random/OrderA.Howard Schwartz Recording (HSR), New York, has extended its audio reach, launching an ADR, dialogue recording and mix facility with ISDN capabilities at Silvercup Studios, Long Island City, N.Y. HSR/Silvercup figures to diversify the company further into TV programs, including shows that are shot on the Silvercup stages. HSR/Silvercup is currently doing ADR and Sarah Jessica Parker’s voiceovers for the HBO series Sex In the City. HSR’s mainstay Manhattan facility continues to serve a mix of advertising, feature, TV, radio, Internet and corporate clienteleA.

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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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