State attorneys general on Monday announced a nearly $392 million settlement with Google over allegations that it misled consumers about when location tracking services were collecting information on consumers. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption … Source link
Read More »How Google Will ‘Scale’ New Public Sector Division ‘Quickly’
Cloud News Mark Haranas November 14, 2022, 02:52 PM EST ‘Our mission is to accelerate the digital transformation of our government and education customers with our partners,’ Troy Bertram, Google’s public sector channel leader, tells CRN. Here’s what Google Cloud channel partners need to know about the company’s public… Source link
Read More »Michael Saylor compares SBF to ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Microstrategy founder and bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor had some strong words about fallen FTX founder and one-time billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). “I think this [crypto] crash accelerates regulatory intervention,” Saylor said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I mean, in fact, in a sense, SBF is like the Jordan Belfort of the crypto era. Instead of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ they’ll make a movie called ‘The King of Crypto.'” Belfort famously was found guilty of stock market… Source link
Read More »Ikigai and BlockFi reveal their exposure to FTX
Crypto asset manager Ikigai is the latest firm to reveal it held a majority of its funds with FTX on Monday, while troubled lender BlockFi has engaged Berkeley Research Group. “We had a large majority of the hedge fund’s total assets on FTX. By the time we went to withdraw Monday [morning], we got very little out,” Ikigai Chief Investment Officer Travis Kling said over Twitter. “We’re now stuck alongside everyone else.” Kling added in his announcement that the hedge fund would also make… Source link
Read More »David Y. Ige | NEWS RELEASE: OFFICE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION ANNOUNCES HISTORIC $391.5 MILLION MULTISTATE SETTLEMENT WITH GOOGLE OVER LOCATION TRACKING PRACTICES
NEWS RELEASE: OFFICE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION ANNOUNCES HISTORIC $391.5 MILLION MULTISTATE SETTLEMENT WITH GOOGLE OVER LOCATION TRACKING PRACTICES Posted on Nov 14, 2022 in Latest Department News, Newsroom Honolulu – The State of Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection announced today that Hawaii, along with 39 other states, has reached a $391.5 million multistate settlement with Google over its location tracking practices relating to Google Account settings. This is the largest multistate… Source link
Read More »Google, Epic partnering to allow Epic hospital clients to run EHRs on Google Cloud
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Google Cloud and Epic, the largest medical software vendor in the U.S. hospital market, are building an offering that will allow clients to run their Epic… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud announces EHR partnership with Epic.
Google Cloud and Epic have signed a deal that will enable hospitals using the electronic health record company’s products to take those records to the cloud, they announced Monday. Why it matters: The partnership gives health systems another option for their cloud environment. Google Cloud officials say the platform will offer new tools to build more efficiencies and optimize care, as well as secure their data. New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health will be the first health system to… Source link
Read More »Former Morgan Stanley CEO on Swiss banks: Secrecy is ‘their nature’
In 2014, Credit Suisse pleaded guilty to helping thousands of Americans evade taxes and paid a $2.6 billion fine. It also promised to reveal any hidden bank accounts. Credit Suisse has recently come under scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice for potentially not complying with that plea agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, who last month published “Up Close and All In: Life Lessons… Source link
Read More »Google’s Health Connect app is now available in beta • TechCrunch
Google announced today that its Health Connect app is now available in beta on the Play Store. Health Connect is designed to centralize access to health and fitness data from various eligible apps. Today, more than 10 health and fitness apps are launching integrations with Health Connect, including MyFitnessPal, Oura and Peloton. The app syncs health and fitness data from eligible platforms and allows other apps to gain access to this data with their consent, while… Source link
Read More »40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 million
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced Monday. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.” The attorneys general… Source link
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