Steve wozniak the co founder of apple computers has filed a suit against popular video streaming website youtube for allowing bitcoin scammers to use his likeness in their fraudulent. In a lawsuit filed in the superior court of. Apple co founder steve wozniak is suing youtube and google for videos on their platform that use his likeness in cryptocurrency giveaway scams.
Apple co founder steve wozniak joined another 17 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against youtube and its parent alphabet for allowing the rampant bitcoin giveaway scams using his images and videos to lure potential victims. Wozniak had alerted google about the bitcoin videos on youtube in may apple co founder steve wozniak is launching a legal attack against google s youtube video site for allowing con artists to use. Wozniak sues youtube because of fake btc giveaways fake bitcoin giveaways are a growing threat in the cryptocurrency industry.
The increased number of fake bitcoin giveaways on youtube involving various celebrities has pushed apple inc co founder steve wozniak to file a lawsuit against the platform and the parent company google. Steve wozniak and 17 other victims are filing a lawsuit against youtube and google over their lack of action to address a fraudulent bitcoin giveaway that used an image of wozniak to to defraud. The lawsuit seeks punitive damages a trial by jury and demands youtube remove all bitcoin.
Apple co founder steve wozniak was one of 18 plaintiffs to file a lawsuit against youtube on tuesday. Steve wozniak apple co founder and tech entrepreneur filed a lawsuit against google on wednesday over a youtube scam that allegedly used his name and likeness to convince viewers to send. The videos use wozniak s name and likeness to trick viewers into sending bitcoin.
Steve wozniak filed a lawsuit this week against youtube over a string of bitcoin scam videos hosted on the website. The scam similar to one used in a twitter hack requested people. Apple co founder steve wozniak is suing youtube for allegedly allowing scammers to use images and videos of him to defraud people.
