All the headlines from our Google Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...