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A Dutch consumer advocacy group is suing the country’s privacy regulator over a two-year wait for action on a complaint against Google, arguing there are flaws in the European system for handling data privacy and security cases involving multinationals that operate in many countries. The lawsuit highlights growing dissatisfaction among consumers, privacy advocates and some regulators about the way complaints against large companies are handled by the data protection authority in the country… Source link

Texas may pay tens of millions of dollars to outside attorneys hired to handle a major lawsuit against Google — money the state did not plan to spend before a scandal enveloped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this fall. That’s under agreements signed last month with outside lawyers based in Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C., including high-profile plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Lanier and the law firm Keller Lenkner, who will lead Texas’ multi-state… Source link

A crucial memory In the hours after the attack, M.D. hadn’t begun to process the trauma of her ordeal yet. It felt unreal. But one thing that she was able to focus on was talking to detectives. She spoke to them in person and on the phone, and rode with them as they retraced the route of her abduction. “I tried to remember as much detail as I could, anything I thought was significant,” M.D. said. “I was hoping any little clue I gave would help them put pieces of the puzzle together.”

The U.S. is racing to administer COVID-19 vaccines across the country to frontline workers and the elderly, but it’s coming up against mistrust — particularly among people of color. According to one New York City doctor, it’s vital to address concerns about systemic racism as a matter of public health — and not just for people of color, but for everyone. “The individuals that are most concerned that I found in my clinic are my African-American and Latino patients,” Dr. Stella Safo,… Source link

“Who the heck consents to having a company track them across the internet,” she remembered thinking. “They could only do it because they had monopoly power to do something that clearly goes against consumer interests.” After leaving the ad world in 2017, she spent the next year researching and writing a paper on why Facebook was a monopoly. When she was done, she submitted her paper to the websites of about a dozen law reviews. To her surprise, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, which… Source link

The Justice Department’s historic lawsuit against Google is moving along — albeit very, very slowly. In a status hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta set a tentative date for the case. The good news and the bad news for both parties involved is that it’s more than two years away. As CNBC reports, Mehta chose September 12, 2023 as the first day of the trial, which is expected to last weeks. That date could change, but with both the Justice Department and Google agreeing… Source link

WASHINGTON—Government antitrust cases challenging Google’s business practices are going to be a long road in court. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington said Friday it will be almost three years before a trial begins in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit alleging Google uses a web of exclusionary agreements and other tactics to preserve a monopoly for its flagship search engine and related advertising… Source link

Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa agreed to a guilty plea this week after his drunk driving arrest earlier this year in Arizona, according to The Athletic. La Russa — who was facing two charges of driving under the influence following his arrest — agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to a charge of reckless driving. The lesser charge is a class 2 misdemeanor in Arizona, a step down from the initial driving under the influence charge. He will also be required to pay a $1,383 fine and… Source link

California, home of the Google campus in Mountain View, would join a group of Republican-led states in the Justice Department lawsuit. Photo: Images by Cayce Clifford … Source link