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Russian internet group Yandex Chief Executive Officer Elena Bunina attends a session of the Moscow Financial Forum in Moscow, Russia September 6, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 2 (Reuters) – Elena Bunina is stepping down as director general of Yandex’s principal operating subsidiary, Yandex LLC, Russia’s biggest technology company, TASS news agency said on Saturday, before her tenure is due to expire on April 15.

The parallel lawsuits by the District of Columbia, Texas, Indiana and Washington state zero in on Google’s collection of location data, which can be used to target advertising and build profiles on internet users. The DC Attorney General’s lawsuit alleges that since 2014, Google (GOOG) has made misleading public statements about how users can opt out of location tracking. Despite offering settings in users’ Google accounts that promised to restrict location data tracking, Google allegedly… Source link

The District of Columbia and three states sued Google on Monday, claiming that the tech giant deceived consumers to gain access to their location data. In separate lawsuits, the attorneys general of D.C., Texas, Washington and Indiana claimed that Google misled users of Android phones and of tools like Google Maps and its search engine by continuing to track location information of users who had changed privacy setting to prevent the data collection. Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for… Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Four attorneys general are suing Google for allegedly misleading users about when the company was able to track their location. The bipartisan group of attorneys general from the District of Columbia, Indiana, Texas and Washington allege in separate lawsuits filed Monday that Google deceived users from at least 2014 to 2019 by… Source link

The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville BERLIN, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google has offered to remove News Showcase content from general search results in a bid to end a competition investigation into the selection of news in the product, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office said on Wednesday. The Cartel Office will now consult with affected news publishers to assess whether Google’s proposal would be… Source link

A lawsuit alleging securities law violations, filed against Facebook’s parent company Meta (FB) by Ohio’s largest pension fund, should be an easy one to prove, according to the state’s attorney general. On Monday, Attorney General Dave Yost along with Ohio’s Public Employee Retirement System filed suit in federal district court in California, alleging that earlier in the year Facebook and its senior executives made false and misleading statements that artificially inflated its share… Source link

The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been stunted in part due to the ease and speed with which misinformation spreads via the internet and social media —creating an additional barrier for government officials and experts to ensure the general public remains well-informed. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy places the blame on key technology companies — but also believes that everyone in the country can play a role in halting the spread of misinformation. “You don’t have to… Source link

The FDA rejected Pfizer (PFE)/BioNTech’s (BNTX) booster shot recommendation for the general public in order to place greater focus on inoculating the unvaccinated populations and collecting more data on booster shots, Meghan FitzGerald, adjunct associate professor of health policy and management at Columbia University, told Yahoo Finance Live. Though the FDA rejected the booster for the general public by a large margin (16-2), the shot was endorsed unanimously for the elderly and… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) is facing expanded antitrust claims in an amended lawsuit originally brought against the e-commerce giant in May by the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. The original suit, filed in May, accused Amazon of illegally abusing its monopoly power and violating the District of Columbia Antitrust Act by forbidding third-party sellers from offering cheaper rates for their products on competing websites. In the amended suit, Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine adds… Source link

Attorneys general from 36 states and one district are suing Google for alleged anti-competitive practices — this time, over its Google Play app store. The suit turns up the heat on Big Tech companies, which are also facing a growing pile of antitrust suits, fending off bipartisan antitrust legislation from the House of Representatives, and preparing for more intense scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission now that it’s headed by antitrust expert and Big Tech critic Lina Khan. The… Source link