The next sentence under the headline is "Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted ads".
The next sentence under the headline is "Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted ads".
That's a worthless indicator of objective innocence.
It's a private, civil case that settled. To not deny wrongdoing (even if guilty) would be insanely rare.
Obviously. The point is that settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing.
> settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing
Only if you use a very narrow criteria that a verdict was reached. However, that's impractical as 95% of civil cases resolve without a trial verdict.
Compare this to someone who got the case dismissed 6 years ago and didn't pay out tens of millions of real dollars to settle. It's not a verdict, but it's dishonest to say the plaintiff's case had zero merit of wrongdoing based on the settlement and survival of the plaintiff's case.