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Google is facing a damages claim of up to €25 billion in the latest class action against it in Europe.  Two claims are being brought in the Netherlands and the U.K. over the tech giant’s alleged misuse of advertising technology, following the French Competition Authority’s 2021 finding that Google had misused ‘adtech’ to benefit ad servers it owned.  The collective actions are being brought on behalf of online publishers by a range… Source link

Four women who used to work for Google have won class-action status for their gender equity lawsuit against the search engine company, allowing them to represent some 10,800 women, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit alleges that Google pays men more than women for the same work, in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act, and that Google paid its female employees nearly $17,000 less per year than male counterparts in the same roles. The women filed the suit in 2017, claiming they were put… Source link