An EU high court adviser said Thursday that a German law subjecting Google and other search engines to demands for licensing fees for publishing excerpts from news articles should be blocked on procedural grounds.
Read moreAt a House panel Tuesday where Republicans hit Google with allegations of bias, CEO Sundar Pichai insisted that the search giant builds it products without regard for political viewpoint.
Read moreFollowing hours of raucous debate that featured protesters chaining themselves to chairs, the San Jose City Council voted unanimously to approve a $111 million land deal with Google with the potential to dramatically remake the downtown area of the 10th largest U.S. city and capital of Silicon Valley and shape the future of corporate sponsored urban redevelopment.
Read moreA class action filed Thursday accuses Google, Facebook and Apple of tracking smartphone users’ location and history regardless of privacy settings.
Read moreGoogle was hit Thursday with a copyright lawsuit claiming the tech giant’s employee training program, available for anyone to download for free, is based on information lifted from a group team-building book published more than 50 years ago.
Read moreProbing a class action settlement that would pay only pennies to 129 million affected consumers, the Supreme Court appeared hesitant Wednesday to rewrite the rules on so-called cy pres awards.
Read moreA class of “local guides” who help Google refine its Maps and Earth products claim in court that the search giant promised them a free terabyte of data storage, then charged them $10 a month for it after two years.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit struggled Friday over a suit that would hold search engines like Google liable for letting disreputable locksmiths manipulate their map results.
Read moreGoogle is appealing a record $5 billion antitrust fine by European Union authorities, who say the tech giant abused the dominance of its Android operating system to stifle competitors.
Read moreIn the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties.
Read moreTwenty-two people who never subscribed to Gmail claim in court that Google intercepted, scanned and stored their messages, invading their privacy and violating wiretap laws.
Read moreNew Mexico’s attorney general filed a federal lawsuit claiming the maker of a children’s gaming app sends kids’ location, demographic and other personal information to advertisers without parental consent, risking their safety and violating their privacy.
Read moreEuropean authorities are planning to slap internet companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook with big fines if they don’t take down extremist content within one hour.
Read moreGoogle is taking its legal fight over whether “right to be forgotten” rules should apply to search engines globally all the way to Europe’s top court.
Read moreMore than a dozen human rights groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company not to offer censored internet search in China, amid reports it is planning to again provide the service in the giant market.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google and other tech companies, without evidence, of rigging search results about him so that “almost all” of the stories about him at the top of the page are bad.
Read moreA federal judge refused Thursday to certify a class of advertisers who claim Google unfairly excluded clicks on mobile devices from a discount program
Read moreA class action privacy lawsuit against Google was filed in federal court in San Francisco Friday, claiming that the technology giant continued to track the location of cell phone users after they turned off tracking.
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