Even If Only Few Use Them, Contact Tracing Apps May Help Curb COVID September 4, 2020 By Vishwadha Chander Contact tracing apps can sharply reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus even when only a few people use them,...
Internet Companies Urge FCC to Reject Trump Rules on Social Media Liability September 3, 2020 By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose A group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday urged the Federal...
Trump Seeks Dismissal of Legal Challenge to Executive Order by Social Media Firms August 14, 2020 By Nandita Bose The Trump administration has filed a motion asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit against the president’s executive order targeting...
Senators Propose ‘Scalpel, Rather Than Jackhammer’ to Reform Internet Liability June 25, 2020 By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson Two U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to reform part of a federal law that largely exempts tech platforms such...
N.Y. AG Urges Apple, Google to Protect Consumers Using Contact Tracing Apps June 16, 2020 New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged Apple, maker of the iPhone, and Google, developer of the Android operating...
After Being Sued by Sonos, Google Sues Sonos Alleging Patent Infringement June 12, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel and Paresh Dave Google filed a lawsuit accusing home speaker maker Sonos Inc. of infringing five of its patents, escalating tensions between the...
Google Sued by Arizona over ‘Deceptive’ Location Tracking June 1, 2020 Google kept tabs on the whereabouts of its users even if they had turned off location tracking, an Arizona official...
Google Urges EU to Use Current Laws, Not New Ones, to Regulate Artificial Intelligence May 29, 2020 By Foo Yun Chee Google has called on the European Union to use current EU laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence rather...
New Mexico AG Sues Google for Collecting Personal Data of School Children February 21, 2020 New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has filed a lawsuit against Google LLC alleging the tech giant is illegally collecting...
Electricity Can’t Hold Candle to Artificial Intelligence in Significance: Alphabet CEO January 28, 2020 By Amy Thomson and Stephanie Bodoni Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI...