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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google settles $5B privacy suit alleging it spied on incognito users  Business Insider Source link

Maja Hitij/Getty Images A Twitter investor is suing Elon Musk for market manipulation for his tweets about the buy being “on hold.” The complaint was filed in California on Wednesday. “Just because your name is Business Insider Trading doesn’t mean you should project that on others!” Musk told Insider in an email. A Twitter shareholder is suing Elon Musk and Twitter over Musk’s tweets following his agreement to buy the company last month. The proposed class-action suit, filed in a federal… Source link

The suit by Match Group (MTCH) is the latest antitrust complaint to hit Google (GOOG) after years of scrutiny over its business practices. The suit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google not only has a monopoly on the distribution of Android apps, but also forces app makers to accept contract language that locks them into using Google’s in-app payment technology and requires them to pay fees to Google. “These exorbitant ‘fees’… Source link

Google employees staged walkout in 2018. (Photo by Mason Trinca/Getty Images) Getty Images Three former Google engineers — Rebecca Rivers, Sophie Waldman and Paul Duke — are suing the search giant for slander, breach of contract and termination in violation of public policy. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Santa Clara County, comes two years after they were fired. Rivers, Waldman and Duke were terminated in November 2019 after months of publicly protesting Google… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) app store, Google Play, became the latest target of Big Tech antitrust regulators Wednesday in a federal lawsuit filed by dozens of attorneys general led by the state of Utah. The case, brought in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is one of dozens of lawsuits that Google’s parent company Alphabet is facing in a wave of actions around the globe challenging tiers of its dominant markets.  In… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging ‘censorship’  BBC News Source link

Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday filed three purported federal class action lawsuits against Facebook (FB), Google-owned YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL) and Twitter (TWTR) their respective CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey.  According to Trump, the lawsuits are intended to stop the platforms from censoring speech and from removing user accounts. The three suits claim the tech giants violated the First Amendment’s free speech protections, though the amendment protects… Source link

HOUSTON — A third civil suit filed against Deshaun Watson alleges the Houston Texans quarterback forced a massage therapist to perform oral sex on him during a session with a woman in December of 2020. This is now the third sexual assault and harassment civil suit filed against Watson since Tuesday, each involving a female massage therapist represented by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee. A league source told Yahoo Sports on Thursday that the NFL’s investigative arm, led by senior vice… Source link

Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey answer questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Edward Lawrence with more. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Tuesday pressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on a newly revealed whistleblower complaint alleging that Facebook employees coordinate with Twitter and Google employees to make certain content moderation decisions. Hawley said a former Facebook employee “with direct knowledge of the company’s content moderation practices” contacted his… Source link