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Tech giant ‘continued to collect and store a user’s location data’ even if users turned off their location history, according to suitGoogle will pay $93m to settle accusations of misleading consumers on how and when their location information was being…
Justice department takes on tech giant in court, seeking to prove it illegally used its power to maintain monopoly on internet searchThe court battle between the US justice department and Google has entered its second day, as the United States governme…
US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and SamsungThe watershed antitrust trial pitting the US government against Google began on Tuesday in a Washington district court, as the gov…
Which? said firms are gathering far more data than needed for products to functionSex and politics: car driver data grab is ‘privacy nightmare’EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech Owners of smart home devices are being asked for swathes of …
‘Revolutionary’ Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone appsThe EU has unveiled a set of “revolutionary” laws to curb the power of six big tech companies, including allowing consumers to decide what a…
Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise can now operate around the clock in San Francisco and San Mateo countyA California commission voted on Thursday to allow two self-driving car companies to begin commercially operating their vehicles i…
Dust-up began after law passed requiring social media companies to compensate news publishers for posting their contentA group of Canadian news publishers and broadcasters has called on the country’s competition regulator to stop Meta from blocking acc…
The sunny report establishes a continued rebound for the tech company after a difficult 2022 and thousands of job cutsAlphabet stocks rose in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the Google parent company’s second-quarter profits exceeded Wall Street e…
The country is suffering its worst drought in 74 years, with the government even mixing saltwater into the drinking supplyA plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffer…
As country considers ‘right to be forgotten’, firm says it would be more effective to create legal obligations for sites hosting informationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs Australia considers the “right to be…