US EditionIt's Steve Wozniak's 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit?
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Modern times have given rise to evolutions that no technological promoter would have imagined at the origin of his idea. Among them, the world of digital scams is on the order of the day, with countless examples through different methods: from those who pretend to be an official body like Hacienda to those who seek to take the user's Whatsapp account or those who use the image of known personalities to give a sense of support to a cryptocurrency…
CBS Unmasks Bitcoin Scams Using Deepfake Steve Wozniak, Accidentally Showcases Disney Animatronic, Exposing the Growing Digital Identity Fraud Threat
While Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has long been known and celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to the smartphone industry and his excellence in technology, he has recently been garnering attention for completely different reasons. Wozniak, while speaking to CBS News in one of its segments around internet scammers, addressed the troubling rise in cryptocurrency scams that use images without consent in order to lure victims into se…
On August 10, 2025, Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, publicly denounced a new scam targeting Internet users, broadcast on YouTube on a large scale. According to him, Google's platform allows fraudulent videos to thrive using its image to extract money from the victims, despite repeated reports. This speech is part of a judicial fight that has been underway since 2020. The video is rigged on YouTube: a flouted image Everything started with an a…
It's Steve Wozniak's 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit?
In 2020 a YouTube video used video footage of Steve Wozniak in a scam to steal bitcoin. "Some people said they lost their life savings," Wozniak tells CBS News, explaining why he sued YouTube in 2020 - and where his case stands now: Wozniak's lawsuit against YouTube has been tied up in court now for five years, stalled by federal legislation known as Section 230. Attorney Brian Danitz said, "Section 230 is a very broad statute that limits, if no…
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