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Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit

Jan 3 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, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit

Dec 29 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the privacy of children under age 13 by tracking their YouTube activity without parental...

Google Defeats One Suit Over Chrome Data Privacy Practices

Dec 14 2022 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google defeated a privacy lawsuit by consumers who accused the company of snooping on them even after they opted out of sharing their web activity.US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday...

Employee Claims Google Fired Him Over Refusing Sex Advance, Failure to Be ‘Inclusive’

Dec 2 2022 // A former Google employee is suing the technology company claiming he was fired in retaliation for refusing another employee’s sexual advances and for not being “inclusive” in his team hiring.Ryan Olohan,...

Google Sued in UK by 130,000 Alleged Victims of Its Online Advertising Dominance

Dec 1 2022 // Google and its parent Alphabet Inc. were sued in a UK court over alleged antitrust abuses in a group claim by 130,000 businesses that argues the tech giant’s approach to advertising that may have cost companies...

Google Play Fee Suit by Consumers Grows to 21 Million Users

Nov 29 2022 // Google now faces more than 21 million customers, instead of just a handful, in a lawsuit alleging its app store collects exorbitant fees.A federal judge exponentially increased the Alphabet Inc. unit’s damages...

Google to Pay About $400 Million to Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuit

Nov 14 2022 // Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney general’s office said...

Republican National Committee Sues Google Over Email Spam Filters

Oct 24 2022 // The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders.The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of...

Texas Sues Google for Alleged Biometric Privacy Violations

Oct 21 2022 // Texas sued Google over claims that the search-engine giant is illegally capturing the biometric data of users without their consent, the latest in a series of lawsuits by the state against tech companies over online...

Google Faces EU Antitrust Charges Over its Ad-Tech Business

Oct 13 2022 // Alphabet unit Google could face antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, with EU regulators frustrated over the slow pace of settlement talks with the company, people familiar with the matter said...

Markets/Coverages: Travelers, Google Cloud to Build Data System to Underwrite Commercial Risk

Sep 22 2022 // Google Cloud and The Travelers Companies said they are working together to create a cloud-based data ecosystem that will help Travelers’ underwriters more efficiently evaluate risks for large and middle market...

Judge Allows Claim That NFL App Violates Privacy by Disclosing Personal Data to Google

Sep 15 2022 // The National Football League has lost a bid to completely toss a class action that alleges it violates privacy laws by sharing the video watching habits of users of its mobile NFL App with Google for advertising and...

Google Must Face Most of Texas Lawsuit Over Ad Dominance, Judge Rules

Sep 14 2022 // Alphabet Inc’s Google must face all but one antitrust allegation about its online advertising business brought in a lawsuit by attorneys general for Texas and 16 other states or territories, a federal judge ruled on...

Google Faces Damages Claims of $25.4B in UK, Dutch Courts Over Adtech Practices

Sep 13 2022 // Alphabet unit Google will face damages claims for up to 25 billion euros ($25.4 billion) over its digital advertising practices in two suits to be filed in British and Dutch courts in the coming weeks by a law firm on...

Google Completes $5.4M Buy of Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant

Sep 12 2022 // Google today said it has completed its acquisition of Mandiant, Inc. Mandiant will join Google Cloud and retain the Mandiant brand, Google said.Alphabet’s Google said the acquisition will allow Google Cloud and...

DOJ Poised to Rebuff Google Concessions, Clearing the Way for Antitrust Suit

Jul 15 2022 // The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit over Google’s dominance of the online advertising market, according to people familiar...

Google Offers Concessions to Thwart US Antitrust Case

Jul 11 2022 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google has offered concessions to change certain aspects of its advertising business in an attempt to head off a possible US antitrust lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.Google has...

Oracle Corp. Women Stumble in Pay Bias Suit While Google Cuts a Deal

Jun 14 2022 // Women at Oracle Corp. suing over alleged pay disparities took a big step backward, while more than 15,000 female workers at Google crossed the finish line.Under a judge’s tentative ruling Friday, the Oracle women are...

Google Agrees to Pay $118 Million to Settle Pay Equity Suit

Jun 13 2022 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit with about 15,500 female employees, lawfirms representing the women said in a statement.In addition, an independent expert...

Google Ordered to Pay Former Australian Lawmaker for Defamatory YouTube Videos

Jun 6 2022 // SYDNEY – An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTuber’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory”...