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#1 Teen’s Suicide Turns Mother Against Google, AI Chatbot Startup
Mar 18 2025 // Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own life. In a lawsuit with major implications for Silicon Valley, she is seeking to hold Google and...
#2 Google Keeps Chrome and Apple Deal but Must Share Data in Big Antitrust Ruling
Sep 3 2025 // Google won’t have to sell its Chrome browser, a judge in Washington said on Tuesday, handing a rare win to Big Tech in its battle with U.S. antitrust enforcers, but ordering Google to share data with rivals to open...
#3 Google Must Pay $425 Million in Class Action Over Privacy, Jury Rules
Sep 4 2025 // A federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet’s Google must pay $425 million for invading users’ privacy by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in...
#4 Google Sued by Advertising Exchange Over Monopoly Violations
Sep 9 2025 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google was sued by advertising exchange PubMatic Inc., which is seeking billions of dollars over its claim that the search giant has illegally monopolized the ad technology market. The lawsuit, filed...
#5 Rolling Stone, Billboard Owner Penske Sues Google Over AI Overviews
Sep 15 2025 // The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday, alleging the technology giant’s AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites. The lawsuit by Penske Media...
#6 US Supreme Court Allows Order Forcing Google to Make App Store Reform
Oct 7 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge’s order requiring Alphabet’s Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit...
#7 Google to Spend $500M Revamping Compliance in Shareholder Settlement
Jun 2 2025 // Google agreed to spend $500 million over 10 years to overhaul its compliance structure, to settle shareholder litigation accusing the search engine company of antitrust violations, settlement papers show. The preliminary...
#8 Google Facing at Least €12 Billion in Civil Claims Across Europe
May 13 2025 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google is facing at least €12 billion ($13.3 billion) in damage claims from dozens of price comparison websites across the European Union which allege that the search and advertising giant stole...
#9 News Corp. Sued by Google Search Engine Rival Brave Software to Defend Its ‘Fair Use’
Mar 14 2025 // News Corp. has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch’s company for when readers are directed to copyrighted articles from the Wall Street Journal...
#10 Kremlin Says Google Should Lift YouTube Block on Russian Broadcasters
Nov 1 2024 // The Kremlin said on Thursday that Alphabet’s Google should lift its block on Russian TV channels broadcasting on YouTube and said it hoped huge legal claims racking up against the U.S.-based company would jolt it...
#11 Google Settles YouTube Children’s Privacy Lawsuit for $30 Million
Aug 21 2025 // Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of children using YouTube by collecting their personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads. A preliminary...
#12 Google to Pay $28M to Settle Claims it Favored White and Asian Employees
Mar 19 2025 // Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers. The accord with Google,...
#13 Google’s AI Previews Erode the Internet, Educational Tech Company Says in Lawsuit
Feb 25 2025 // Alphabet’s Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a U.S. educational technology...
#14 Google Scraps Diversity-Based Hiring Targets
Feb 6 2025 // Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling...
#15 US Seeks Forced Sale of Google Ad Technology Products
May 7 2025 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google should be forced to sell off two of its businesses that help websites buy, sell and serve online advertising after a judge found the company illegally monopolized those markets, the Justice...
#16 Google Owes $314 Million for Misusing Android Cell Phone Data
Jul 2 2025 // Google was told by a California jury to pay $314 million over claims that it illegally used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge. A state court jury in San Jose issued the...
#17 Hackers Abuse Modified Salesforce App to Steal Data, Extort Companies, Google Says
Jun 5 2025 // Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud...
#18 Mexico’s Sheinbaum Threatens to Sue Google Over ‘Gulf of America’ Maps Change
Feb 14 2025 // Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened a civil lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps service following an executive order Donald Trump signed after taking...
#19 Google Settles $1.4B Lawsuit With Texas Over Data Privacy Violations
May 12 2025 // Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement...
#20 CFPB Claims Supervision Over Google Unit, Which Promptly Sues
Dec 9 2024 // The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it’s claiming supervisory authority over Google Payment Corp., as the agency extends its oversight of nonbank financial platforms. The unit of Alphabet Inc. promptly...
