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Google Denies Claims It Developed Tool to Spy on Its Employees
Oct 24 2019 // Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor...
Bipartisan Group Calls for Pulling Internet Firms’ Liability Immunity
Oct 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that tech companies are pushing to keep in new agreements, including a deal to replace the North...
Why Big Internet Firms Think They Should Remain Shielded from Content Liability
Oct 16 2019 // A 23-year-old law giving technology companies legal protection from lawsuits over user-generated content remains critical to the internet’s future, Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit and social media site Reddit Inc....
Insurance Site, Other Businesses Battle Google Search Engine’s Escalating Costs
Oct 9 2019 // “Where’s the best place to hide a body? The second page of a Google search.” The gallows humor shows that people rarely look beyond the first few results of a search, but Lee Griffin isn’t...
Google Faces $3.9B iPhone Privacy Lawsuit After London Court Reinstates Case
Oct 3 2019 // A U.K. lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data-collection claims was given the go-ahead by London appeals judges who overturned an earlier ruling that had thrown out the case. The group, known as...
Airlift from Drugstore to Doorstep: Walgreens, Google’s Wing Testing Drone Deliveries
Sep 23 2019 // Walgreens and a Google affiliate are testing drone deliveries that can put drugstore products on customer doorsteps minutes after being ordered. Snacks like Goldfish Crackers or gummy bears as well as aspirin for sick kids...
Former Google Engineer Charged in Uber Autonomous Theft Case
Aug 29 2019 // A former Google engineer was charged Tuesday with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before he joined Uber’s efforts to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles. The...
Google to Pay $11 Million to Settle Age Bias Employment Claims
Jul 22 2019 // Google agreed to pay $11 million to end a lawsuit accusing the internet giant of discriminating against older job applicants, a deal that amounts to an average payout of more than $35,000 for 227 people who joined the...
Senators Want to Reconsider Lawsuit Immunity for Google and Internet Giants
Jul 17 2019 // U.S. senators used a Congressional hearing on Tuesday to push the idea of overhauling a law that protects YouTube, Facebook and other internet services from being sued for the content users post. The Senate Judiciary...
Alphabet Has High Hopes for Its Drone Traffic Control App OpenSky
Jul 16 2019 // The company that brought you free digital maps and email wants to do the same thing for your drone. Wing LLC, an offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, on Tuesday unveiled a new app it calls OpenSky that it hopes will...
IBM Joins Call to Trim Liability Shield for Google, Facebook, Other Internet Platforms
Jul 11 2019 // International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday threw its support behind enacting a new policy to limit liability protections enjoyed by internet platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook...
Senator Calls for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to Lose Immunity If Politically Biased
Jun 20 2019 // Technology platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Google’s YouTube could face a flood of lawsuits unless they can demonstrate their treatment of users’ content is politically neutral, under a measure that U.S....
Judge Rejects Google Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Conservative Job Bias
Jun 7 2019 // White conservative males who allege that liberal bias at Google Inc. doomed their chances of getting hired by the tech giant cleared the first hurdle to proceed with their lawsuit. A California state judge on Thursday...
Computerized Eyewear Looking for Success in Factories and Field
May 21 2019 // Remember Google Glass? The vaunted debut of the company’s computerized eyewear six years ago was one of Silicon Valley’s more spectacular flops. Deemed too awkward and pretentious, early users were disparaged...
Supreme Court Apple Ruling May Increase Liability Exposure for Digital Platforms
May 14 2019 // Consumers can press ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Apple Inc. of using its market dominance to artificially inflate prices at its App Store, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. The 5-4 decision Monday could add to pressure...
Crane Collapse Casts Pall Over Seattle’s Rapid Growth
Apr 29 2019 // The crane collapse in the heart of Seattle’s tech hub Saturday ended four lives, cast a pall on the city’s rapid expansion and may lead to tens in millions of dollars of costs for a building that Alphabet...
Google Agrees to More Changes in How It Handles Harassment, Misconduct Complaints
Apr 25 2019 // Google unveiled another round of policy changes to address employee concerns about misconduct at the world’s largest internet search company. Staff can now lodge complaints and concerns about harassment and other...
EU’s New Copyright Rules Could Hurt Google, Facebook
Apr 15 2019 // Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union’s $1 trillion creative...
How Real Are ‘Ethical Artificial Intelligence’ Efforts by Tech Giants?
Apr 11 2019 // The biggest tech companies want the public to know that they’re taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants...
Google Will Require Contractors to Offer Benefits, Minimum Wage
Apr 5 2019 // Google says it will require staffing companies it works with to pay workers at least $15 an hour and give them health benefits. The company has faced pushback from employees and contract workers for paying contractors less...
