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Google to Offer Cyber Insurance From Allianz, Munich Re to Cloud Users
Mar 2 2021 // Google is teaming up with two global insurers to cover cyber breaches and related risks for businesses that use its cloud services, the first time a major provider has opened up such insurance to its clients, the companies...
Google Paying $2.6M to Settle California, Washington Discrimination Case
Feb 3 2021 // Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state. The...
Pardon for Ex-Google Exec Who Took Self-Driving Car Secrets to Uber
Jan 22 2021 // A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Wednesday after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining...
Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’
Dec 23 2020 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its...
AI Ethics Scholar’s Exit Adds to Google’s Employment Practices Woes
Dec 7 2020 // Prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google’s public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology. But internally, Gebru, a...
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo Launching Autonomous Vehicle Testing Site in Ohio
Dec 3 2020 // Waymo plans to open a new testing site in Ohio for its driverless autonomous vehicles that will focus on dense, urban areas, the company has said. The new site being built at the Transportation Research Center near...
Fired Employees Accuse Google of Labor Violations Over Handling of Protests
Dec 3 2020 // The National Labor Relations Board will file a complaint accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning workers, who were fired for protesting against company policies and trying to organize...
States Prepare Second Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google for December
Nov 24 2020 // A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter, potentially beating a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a...
Health Officials Hope New Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps Attract More Users
Nov 20 2020 // A new wave of mobile apps that help track exposure to the coronavirus is coming to U.S. states ahead of the holidays as public health officials bet that recently introduced features from Apple Inc. and Alphabet...
FCC Chief Vows to Advance New Social Media Company Liability Rules
Oct 16 2020 // Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday the agency will move forward to set new rules to clarify the meaning of a key legal protection for social media companies. The announcement came as...
Supreme Court Hears Google’s Appeal of Oracle’s $8 Billion Copyright Claim
Oct 7 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered whether to protect Alphabet Inc.’s Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle Corp. accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the...
House Antitrust Panel Blasts Big 4 Internet Firms for Abuses; Seeks Reforms, Separations
Oct 7 2020 // A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four big technology companies found they used “killer acquisitions” to smite rivals, charged exorbitant fees and forced small...
Alphabet Settles Suit Over Executives’ Exit Pay, Coverups Linked to Sexual Misconduct
Sep 28 2020 // Alphabet Inc. on Friday settled a shareholder lawsuit that accused the Google parent of covering up lavish exit packages to executives found responsible for sexual misconduct, saying it would overhaul workplace policies...
Google’s YouTube Sued for $3 Billion in UK over Use of Children’s Data
Sep 15 2020 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces a multibillion-dollar lawsuit in the UK over claims that YouTube routinely breaks privacy laws by tracking children online. The suit, filed on behalf of more than 5 million British...
EU Wants Better Self-Regulation by Facebook, Google, Twitter; Plans Liability Changes
Sep 11 2020 // Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the European Commission said...
Even If Only Few Use Them, Contact Tracing Apps May Help Curb COVID
Sep 4 2020 // Contact tracing apps can sharply reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus even when only a few people use them, a study published on Thursday by researchers at Google and Oxford University showed. An app used by 15% of...
Google Turns Android Phones Into Earthquake Sensors
Aug 12 2020 // Alphabet Inc’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with...
Four Ex-Employees Seek Class Action Status for Gender Pay Claims Against Google
Jul 23 2020 // Four female former employees of Alphabet Inc.’s Google are trying to persuade a state court to let them represent more than 10,000 peers in a gender-pay disparity suit against the company, setting the stage for the...
Policygenius Adds Google’s Garr as VP of P&C Operations in North Carolina
Jul 2 2020 // Online insurance marketplace Policygenius has made its first executive hire for its North Carolina headquarters. Erik Garr, who established Google Fiber’s operation in Durham, N.C, and was the director of strategy...
Reuters: Google Chrome Users Targeted in Major Spyware Campaign
Jun 18 2020 // A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech...
