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Gannett Sues Google, Alleges Online Ad Monopoly

Jun 20 2023 // Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising.The publisher of USA...

EU Regulators Could Demand That Google Sell Part of Ad-Tech Business: Source

Jun 13 2023 // European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.The EU’s top...

Google Antitrust Suit Over Ad Tech Sent Back to State Court

Jun 6 2023 // A judicial panel on Monday transferred antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed by state attorneys general back to a federal court in Texas, citing a law passed by Congress in December.The decision...

Jury Says Google Owes Sonos $32.5M in Smart-Speaker Patent Case

May 30 2023 // Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday.The case is...

The Supreme Court Handed Google and Twitter a New Line of Defense

May 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court handed social media companies a new line of defense as they face an increasing number of lawsuits alleging their algorithms have harmed users — whether by addicting children or selling suicide...

London Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Google Over Medical Records

May 19 2023 // Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to...

Supreme Court Leaves Intact Social Media Liability Shield in Win for Google, Twitter

May 18 2023 // The US Supreme Court left in place a broad liability shield for social media companies for content posted by users, insulating Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC from claims that they provided assistance to Islamic...

Judge Denies Google’s Motion to Dismiss Advertising Antitrust Case

Apr 28 2023 // A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology.The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that...

Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say

Apr 20 2023 // Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool.One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the...

Nine More States Join Federal Lawsuit Against Google Over Ad Tech

Apr 18 2023 // Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital...

Google Asks Judge to Toss Antitrust Lawsuit, Says a ‘Superior Product’ Is Not Unlawful

Apr 13 2023 // Google argued Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it broke antitrust law to build and maintain its dominance of search are flawed and that its lawsuit should be thrown out.The government,...

Alphabet Seeks Dismissal of Antitrust Lawsuit Over Google’s Online Ads

Mar 28 2023 // Google parent Alphabet asked a U.S. federal judge on Monday to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that the search giant illegally abused its dominance of online advertising.The government, which filed the ad...

Google Asks London High Court to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical Records

Mar 22 2023 // Google asked London’s High Court on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the tech giant by a British hospital trust.The Royal Free London NHS Trust...

U.S. Judge Rules Against Google, Keeps DOJ Advertising Case in Virginia

Mar 13 2023 // A U.S. federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by Alphabet Inc’s Google to move a Justice Department lawsuit against it over dominance in advertising technology from Virginia to New York.“I am going to rule...

Google Case at Supreme Court Risks Upending the Internet as We Know It

Feb 16 2023 // An upcoming Supreme Court case could answer one of the toughest questions of the internet age: Should online companies be held responsible for promoting harmful speech?The case, Gonzalez v. Google, could upend the modern...

US Targets Google’s Online Ad Business Monopoly in Latest Big Tech Lawsuit

Jan 25 2023 // The US Justice Department accused Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday of abusing its dominance in digital advertising, threatening to dismantle a key business at the heart of one of Silicon Valley’s most...

DOJ Poised to Sue Google Over Digital Ad Market Dominance

Jan 24 2023 // The US Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding the search giant’s dominance over the digital advertising market, according to people familiar with the matter.The...

Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit

Jan 23 2023 // Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced.Rokitas filed a...

Google Argues it Doesn’t Block Rivals in Bid to Kill U.S. Government Antitrust Lawsuit

Jan 12 2023 // Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday argued that a court should toss out a government antitrust lawsuit against it, saying that agreements it made with Apple and others to make Google the default search engine do not bar...

Google to Pay District of Columbia $9.5M for Location Tracking, Privacy Violations

Jan 4 2023 // District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine, in one of his last steps before leaving office, announced that Google will pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that it deceived and manipulated consumers to gain...