France Data Privacy Watchdog Slaps €150M Fine on Google for Misusing ‘Cookies’ January 6, 2022 By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS – France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet’s Google a record 150 million euros...
Google Faces Heavy Fines in Russia After Court Rules in Favor of Putin Ally December 17, 2021 By Henry Meyer Alphabet Inc.’s Google is facing potentially heavy fines in Russia after a court ruled it must unblock the YouTube account...
Google Sues Russians for Alleged ‘Borderless’ Organized Cyber Crime Operation December 9, 2021 By Jamie Tarabay Alphabet Inc.’s Google is suing two Russian nationals it claims are part of a criminal enterprise that has silently infiltrated...
How Big Tech Is Faring in U.S. Lawsuits and Probes December 8, 2021 By Diane Bartz Big Tech platforms Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, and Google have been hit with a series of antitrust...
Lawmakers Introduce Liability, Competition Bills Targeting Giant Internet Firms October 18, 2021 By Anna Edgerton and Rebecca Kern The biggest U.S. tech companies would face new constraints under two bills announced Thursday after a month of revelations from...
INSIGHT: How Big Tech Ethics Panels Are Putting Brakes on AI September 8, 2021 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to...
Russia TV Channel Abandons Talks with Google to Get YouTube Account Unblocked August 16, 2021 By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW – Tsargrad TV, a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman, said it had abandoned talks with Google...
Global Regulators Warned About Entry of ‘Big Tech’ Firms into Financial Services August 3, 2021 By Marc Jones Central banks and financial regulators urgently need to get to grips with the growing influence of “Big Tech,” according to...
Court Says Google Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Hiding Security Risks June 17, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc. accused the company...
Facebook, Google CEOs Suggest How to Reform Internet Immunity Law March 25, 2021 By Diane Bartz and Nandita Bose Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying that companies should...