Google was hit Wednesday with a record $5 billion fine by European antitrust regulators who said it abused its market dominance in search and web-browsing tools on its Android mobile operating system.
Read moreDespite its promise to stop scanning emails for advertising purposes, Google let outside developers access and read millions of users’ private emails without consent, an Ohio man claims in a new class action.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed racketeering claims brought by an inventor who claimed Google used nondisclosure agreements to rip off his trade secrets for its own profit.
Read moreAn Australian man who alleges Google defamed him on Wednesday won a court battle to sue the search engine giant.
Read moreWashington state sued Google and Facebook in state court Monday, claiming the companies violated campaign finance and disclosure laws by failing to obtain and disclose information on who pays for political advertisements.
Read moreRhode Island House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan, a Republican, sued Democratic state Attorney General Peter Kilmartin for telling her it will cost $3,700 to respond to a request for information on how the state is using money from a settlement with Google to increase school security, in Kent County Court.
Read moreMicrosoft and Google are among the tech giants who are urging Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto a proposed state law that would make unauthorized computer access a crime punishable by up to a year in prison.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Google can settle privacy claims by paying millions to six nonprofits instead of class members.
Read moreIn a stunning reversal, the Federal Circuit on Tuesday revived Oracle’s $9 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over Google’s Android smartphone platform, sending the long-running case back for a trial on damages.
Read moreWith a pleasant-sounding name and acronym, the CLOUD Act stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data, but human rights groups take a far less sunny view of the bill than the tech giants pushing for its passage through Congress.
Read moreGoogle on Wednesday decapitated a zombie video maker’s class action seeking millions of dollars in lost ad revenue from YouTube.
Read moreRuling on more than 30 motions Monday, a federal judge partially dismissed, mostly with leave to amend, class claims against Huawei’s and Google’s allegedly defective co-created Nexus 6P smartphone.
Read moreA Google attorney on Thursday fought to behead a zombie-video maker’s class action seeking millions of dollars from YouTube for abruptly dropping ads from videos deemed violent or objectionable.
Read moreTired of waiting while social media platforms and websites hem and haw over what to do about illegal content, the European Commission on Thursday set the bar high at least when it comes to terrorist content: Pull it down within an hour.
Read moreA top German appeals court has ruled Google does not have to check the content of pages it links to for possible legal violations before providing search results.
Read moreDriverless cars will be tested in California for the first time without a person behind a steering wheel under new rules that state regulators approved Monday for the fast-developing technology.
Read moreSocial media platforms – in particular Facebook and Twitter – haven’t gone far enough to comply with EU consumer-protection laws, the European Commission said Thursday.
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