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California DMV to Miss Deadline for Autonomous Vehicle Rules
Dec 22 2014 // California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless”...
Google Targeted in Independent Contractor Classification Dispute
Nov 17 2014 // Google was sued last week by a worker who claimed the company did not pay overtime, improperly classified him as an independent contractor then terminated him after he asked for more hours to be covered under his...
Phone Apps, Facebook, Google Aid Nigerians in Time-Sensitive Fight Against Ebola
Oct 8 2014 // When Nigeria was hit by its first outbreak of the Ebola virus, health workers monitoring suspected cases armed themselves with mobile phones and an Android app that cut the time it took to report the onset of symptoms. The...
Google Liable for Damages for Celebrities’ Private Photos?
Oct 7 2014 // A lawyer who represents about a dozen female celebrities whose private photos were posted online by hackers has threatened to sue Google Inc. for failing to take the photos off its websites, according to the New York...
Negative Comments Lead Michigan Marketing Firm to Sue Client
Oct 2 2014 // A Hartland Township marketing and Web design firm sued a former client over comments it made about the company online and in a letter to a business networking group. Five Sparrows filed the defamation suit against James...
Driven to Praise After Testing Google’s Driverless Car
Aug 17 2014 // The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn’t lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was that it was utterly unremarkable. This isn’t damning with faint praise. It’s...
Smartphones Not All That Security Smart; Major Threats Revealed
Aug 8 2014 // Security researchers revealed two separate threats last week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world’s 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and, in some cases, let hackers take...
Google, Detroit Take Different Routes on Driverless Cars
Jul 1 2014 // In 2012, a small team of Google Inc. engineers and business staffers met with several of the world’s largest car makers to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. In one meeting, both sides were enthusiastic...
Google Loses Appeal to Supreme Court Over Email Privacy Lawsuits
Jun 30 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc., leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View...
Google Begins Complying with EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Ruling
Jun 26 2014 // Google has begun removing some search results to comply with a European Union ruling upholding citizens’ right to have objectionable personal information about them hidden in search engines. The so-called...
Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims in 2 Rulings
Jun 3 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against patent holders in two cases, rejecting a legal theory used to sue technology companies and requiring patents to be written with more specific language. The rulings come in a Supreme...
The Insurance Implications of Google’s Self-Driving Car
May 28 2014 // Google has announced a truly “driverless” car that lacks a steering wheel, brakes or anything else that allows a driver to control its movements. This actually strikes me as a much bigger deal for the insurance...
‘Look, Ma, No Steering Wheel’ in Google’s Autonomous Car
May 28 2014 // Google Inc. is building cars that don’t have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company’s efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small electric...
Europe Moves Ahead with Self-Driving Cars in Reponse to Google
May 19 2014 // Cars could be driving themselves down the world’s streets far sooner than expected, thanks to a change in a global treaty backed by European countries. A little-noticed amendment to the United Nations Convention on...
EU Court Backs ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ in Ruling Against Google
May 13 2014 // Google Inc. may be ordered to remove personal information from its search engine after the European Union’s top court paved the way for citizens to have a “right to be forgotten.” “Links and...
Jury Affirms Samsung Must Pay Apple $119M in Damages for Patent Infringement
May 6 2014 // A U.S. jury on Monday left the total damages Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. must pay Apple Inc. unchanged at $119.6 million, after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone maker was found to have...
Now Mastering City Streets: Google’s Driverless Cars
Apr 30 2014 // Google says its self-driving cars are motoring along: they can navigate freeways comfortably, albeit with a driver ready to take control. But city driving – with its obstacle course of stray walkers, bicyclists and blind...
Supreme Court Facing Additional Patent Issues This Week
Apr 27 2014 // Even as it deals with hot-button issues like campaign financing and affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court has patents on its mind these days. The court, which has already heard four patent-related cases this term,...
Google Escapes Privacy Class Action with Judge’s Ruling
Mar 19 2014 // Google Inc. won a significant legal victory as a U.S. judge decided not to combine several lawsuits that accuse the Internet search company of violating the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of email users into a...
Viacom Settles $1B Copyright Suit Against Google Over YouTube Videos
Mar 19 2014 // Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. settled Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit claiming YouTube violated copyrights by letting users post video clips from television shows without authorization after a federal judge twice threw out...
