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...
Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake March 4, 2021 By Rebecca Kern Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and...
Google to Offer Cyber Insurance From Allianz, Munich Re to Cloud Users March 2, 2021 By Tom Sims Google is teaming up with two global insurers to cover cyber breaches and related risks for businesses that use its...
Google Paying $2.6M to Settle California, Washington Discrimination Case February 3, 2021 By Michael Liedtke Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet...
Pardon for Ex-Google Exec Who Took Self-Driving Car Secrets to Uber January 22, 2021 By Michael Liedtke A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Wednesday after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former...