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Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
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...
Nine More States Join Federal Lawsuit Against Google Over Ad Tech
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...
Google Asks Judge to Toss Antitrust Lawsuit, Says a ‘Superior Product’ Is Not Unlawful
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,...
Alphabet Seeks Dismissal of Antitrust Lawsuit Over Google’s Online Ads
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...
Google Asks London High Court to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical Records
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...
U.S. Judge Rules Against Google, Keeps DOJ Advertising Case in Virginia
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...
Google Case at Supreme Court Risks Upending the Internet as We Know It
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...
US Targets Google’s Online Ad Business Monopoly in Latest Big Tech Lawsuit
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...
DOJ Poised to Sue Google Over Digital Ad Market Dominance
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...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit
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...
Google Argues it Doesn’t Block Rivals in Bid to Kill U.S. Government Antitrust Lawsuit
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...
Google to Pay District of Columbia $9.5M for Location Tracking, Privacy Violations
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...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit
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...
Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit
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...
Google Defeats One Suit Over Chrome Data Privacy Practices
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...
Employee Claims Google Fired Him Over Refusing Sex Advance, Failure to Be ‘Inclusive’
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,...
Google Sued in UK by 130,000 Alleged Victims of Its Online Advertising Dominance
Dec 1 2022 // Google and its parent Alphabet Inc. were sued in a UK court over alleged antitrust abuses in a group claim by 130,000 businesses that argues the tech giant’s approach to advertising that may have cost companies...
Google Play Fee Suit by Consumers Grows to 21 Million Users
Nov 29 2022 // Google now faces more than 21 million customers, instead of just a handful, in a lawsuit alleging its app store collects exorbitant fees. A federal judge exponentially increased the Alphabet Inc. unit’s damages...
Google to Pay About $400 Million to Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuit
Nov 14 2022 // Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney general’s office said...
Republican National Committee Sues Google Over Email Spam Filters
Oct 24 2022 // The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders. The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of...
