Facing 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.
Read moreA German data-protection official says Google has given reassurances that it won’t make transcripts of speech data picked up by its artificial-intelligence system in the European Union for at least the next three months.
Read morePresidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard says Google owes her $50 million in damages after her campaign’s online ads were taken down without warning for a few hours after last month’s televised Democratic debate.
Read moreThe Justice Department announced Tuesday it is launching a wide-ranging antitrust probe into some of the nation’s largest tech companies, amid critiques from lawmakers of the power and influence of companies like Facebook and Google.
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The Trump administration is objecting to France’s plan to tax Facebook, Google and other U.S. tech giants, a rift that’s overshadowing talks between seven longtime allies near Paris this week on issues ranging from digital currencies to trade.
Read moreOfficials from Google, Twitter and Facebook testified Wednesday before a House committee on strategies for countering misinformation and terrorist propaganda on their platforms, amid President Donald Trump claiming they are trying to rig the 2020 election.
Read moreGoogle unveiled plans Tuesday to invest $1 billion to help solve the San Francisco Bay Area’s worsening housing crisis.
Read moreA class claims in a Monday lawsuit that one of California’s largest health care providers is secretly sharing patients’ private information to Facebook, Google and other companies.
Read moreSearch engines like Google cannot be held liable for the manipulation of map results that make disreputable locksmiths appear legitimate, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreThe federal government may be warming up its antitrust enforcement machine and pointing it at Big Tech.
Read moreHuawei could lose its grip on the No. 2 ranking in worldwide cellphone sales after Google announced it would comply with U.S. government restrictions meant to punish the Chinese tech powerhouse.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court invited the solicitor general Monday to weigh in on whether Oracle is entitled to a damages trial in its $9 billion copyright with Google over the Android smartphone platform.
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