The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufiño Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-class woman that broke from conventional portraits of the time that focused largely on wealthy men.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn Wednesday said he wouldn’t let author Stephen Elliott dig deeper into the potential contributors to a #MeToo-era Google spreadsheet that accused him of rape and other sexual misconduct.
Read moreThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claims Google collected, kept and used “highly sensitive and valuable personal information” of Android phone and tablet users without giving them an informed choice.
Read moreFrench media said Thursday they would report Google to the country’s competition regulator over its refusal to pay news companies for displaying their content in defiance of a strict new EU copyright law.
Read moreA shareholder derivative suit in federal court accuses the directors of Google parent Alphabet of costing the company $170 million in fines for improperly collecting personal information from children.
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Google said it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research: that an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years.
Read moreLawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech say they’ve received part of the information they requested from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, and expect to get the rest soon.
Read moreA British appeals court ushered forward a class action Wednesday alleging that Google secretly tracked the internet activity of more than 4 million users of Apple iPhones for six months.
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Google says it will tweak how it shows previews for news stories in France but won’t pay license fees to publishers when the country brings in new European Union copyright rules.
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Google scored a major overseas victory Tuesday, as Europe’s highest court ruled that the “right to be forgotten” online only applies inside the European Union.
Read moreFacing pressure from lawmakers to curtail extremist content, officials from Google, Twitter and Facebook told senators on Wednesday their platforms are leaning on improved technology to flag, remove and report posts before they lead to violence.
Read moreOriginal reporting will be highlighted in Google’s search results, the company said as it announced changes to its algorithm.
Read moreSiding with its magistrate, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a German law subjecting Google and other search engines to demands for licensing fees for publishing excerpts from news articles needs to be cleared by European regulators – and can be disregarded until that happens.
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Attorneys general from 48 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico announced Monday their plans to investigate Google’s business practices and its dominance in the telecommunications and search engine industries.
Read moreGoogle and YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims Wednesday that they violated child-privacy laws by collecting personal information from children without getting their parents’ consent.
Read moreLawyers for Google and the website Prager University squared off before a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday over whether YouTube censors the conservative platform in violation of the First Amendment.
Read moreA federal grand jury in California has indicted the former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle initiative on charges of stealing Google technology and siphoning it to the ride-hail giant, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreGoogle unfairly censors videos on LGBTQ issues, the Divino Group claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe Third Circuit vacated a settlement agreement in which Google was to pay $5.5 million to data privacy organizations and the class counsel, but would not directly compensate any of the class members who allege that the company invaded their privacy with a web browser “cookie” that tracks an internet user’s data.
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