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Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
Users alleged that Google's analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google's Chrome browser to "Incognito"and other browsers to "private" browsing mode.
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies
Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade secret theft, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Google to pay $350 million to settle shareholders' data privacy lawsuit
It resolves claims that Google learned by March 2018 about a three-year software glitch that exposed Google+ users' personal data, yet concealed the problem for months while publicly stressing its commitment to data security.
Google settles AI-related chip patent lawsuit that sought $1.67 billion
Google reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips in Massachusetts federal court. The settlement comes as closing arguments were scheduled to begin in Singular Computing's lawsuit. Singular claimed that Google incorporated its technology into processing units that support AI features in Google services.
Google faces multibillion-dollar US patent trial over AI technology
Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, claims Google copied his technology and used it to support AI features in Google Search, Gmail, Google Translate and other Google services.
Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit
A US judge rejected Google's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use.
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Google must pay $338.7 million in Chromecast patent case, says US jury
Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said on Monday that the company will appeal the verdict and has "always developed technology independently and competed on the merits of our ideas."
Lawsuit by US supermarket shooting victims pins blame on Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants
Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim's relatives said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
US Supreme Court lets Google win stand against Genius suit over song lyrics
The justices turned away an appeal by Genius of a lower court's decision blocking its breach-of-contract claims against Google. Genius had argued that a win for Google could allow big tech companies to steal content without repercussions from websites such as Reddit, eBay and Wikipedia that aggregate user-created information.
Google hit with $15 million verdict in US trial over audio patents
Personal Audio had argued that Google's music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation and editing features that violated its patent rights.
Google, Sonos head to trial in contentious smart speaker patent fight
Sonos has asked the court for $90 million in damages from Google in the San Francisco case, down from $3 billion after U.S. District Judge William Alsup narrowed the case, according to a Google court filing. Sonos alleges Google infringed two of its patents related to multi-room wireless audio.
Google wins US patent trial over data-retrieval technology
The jury decided that Luxembourg-based patent owner Arendi SARL's patent was invalid and that Google did not infringe it, according to the verdict made public on Wednesday.
Google wins appeal of $20-million US patent verdict over Chrome technology
Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman's daughters sued Google in East Texas federal court in 2013, alleging anti-malware functions in Google's Chrome web browser infringed their patents for technology that prevents malware from accessing critical files on a computer.
Google must face trial over Sonos patents, says California judge
The case, set for trial May 8, is part of a contentious intellectual property dispute between the former business partners over their smart speakers that includes lawsuits in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Court revives Apple, Google challenge to US patent-review policy
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a California federal court's decision to dismiss the companies' lawsuit and said the agency may have failed to go through a required public notice-and-comment rulemaking process.
Google to discontinue spam backdoor for political groups
In September last year, the tech giant launched the programme in response to Republican (a US political committee) accusations that its algorithms disproportionately flag conservative fundraising emails as spam, reports The Verge.
Google to pay nearly $400 million to settle state location-tracking probe
The investigation and settlement, which was led by Oregon and Nebraska, is a sign of mounting legal headaches for the tech giant from state attorneys general who have aggressively targeted the firm's user tracking practices in recent months.
Republican committee sues Google over email spam filters
The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail of "discriminating" against the RNC by unfairly sending the group's emails to users' spam folders, impacting both fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts in pivotal swing states.
Sundar Pichai freed from questioning in Google 'Incognito' privacy suit
Pichai had been ordered in December to sit for a deposition for up to two hours in a case alleging that the technology giant scoops user data through its Chrome web browser even in "Incognito" private-browsing mode.
Three US states, DC sue Google over location-tracking
"Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access," Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine's office said
Google lands in trouble over 'Deceptive' Pixel 4 radio ads
The company is being sued in Texas for radio advertising that aired from late October to early December of 2019, reports GizmoChina.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai can be questioned in privacy lawsuit, judge rules
In the lawsuit filed in June 2020, users accused Google of illegally invading their privacy by tracking internet use while Google Chrome browsers were set in "private" mode.
G7 global tax plan may hit corporate titans unevenly
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading nations on Saturday agreed on proposals aimed at ensuring that companies pay tax in each country in which they operate rather than shifting profits to low-tax havens elsewhere.
Google says supports work to update international tax rules
Google said on Saturday that it supports the work being done to update international tax rules after G7 finance ministers agreed to pursue a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% and to reallocate taxing rights for large, profitable multinational companies.
Google to face lawsuit over snooping in ‘incognito’ mode
“The court concludes that Google did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode,” US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, wrote in her ruling.
Google's location-tracking tactics troubled its own engineers, unsealed documents reveal
The files, unsealed late last week, reveal that Google knew it had a massive problem on its hands after an AP article published in August 2018 explained how the company continued to track users' whereabouts even after they had disabled the feature Google called "location history". The released documents include internal Google emails.
Why Google faces a $5 billion class action lawsuit
The $5 billion class action suit alleges that the tech giant and its parent Alphabet Inc collect user's data by tracking his activity on the web even in the private mode through apps and website plug-ins, a Reuters report said.
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