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Lawsuit says Google discriminates against Black workers

(AP) – A former Google employee sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claims the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. April Curley was hired in 2014 to recruit Black candidates for the company. Her lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San… Source link

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Lawsuit Accuses Google of Bias Against Black Employees

A former employee at Google sued the company on Friday, claiming it systematically discriminated against Black workers by placing them in lower-level jobs, underpaying them and denying them opportunities to advance. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, seeks class-action status. The plaintiff is April Curley, who worked at Google from 2014 until she was dismissed in 2020. While there, Ms. Curley helped bring in Black employees to the… Source link

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Google is accused in lawsuit of systemic bias against Black employees

March 18 (Reuters) – A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Google of systemic racial bias against Black employees, saying the search engine company steers them to lower-level jobs, pays them less and denies them opportunities to advance because of their race. According to a complaint seeking class-action status, Google maintains a “racially biased corporate culture” that favors white men, where Black people comprise only 4.4% of employees and about 3% of leadership and its technology workforce.

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Lawsuit claims Google’s ‘Order Online’ button directs customers away from restaurants’ sites

Google is facing a lawsuit from a Florida restaurant chain owner that accuses the company of directing users to “unauthorized” Google-branded food ordering webpages, where it uses restaurants names “without their approval,” as first reported by Ars Technica. A copy of the lawsuit alleges Google employs “bait-and-switch” tactics by placing its “Order Online” button at the top of restaurants’ profile panels on the search engine. The large blue button redirects users to a

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Google dupes diners, sidelines restaurants for delivery profits – lawsuit

The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Summary Law firms Related documents Proposed class action says Google misuses restaurant names to divert delivery orders Restaurants say they never authorized Google to sell their food (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has been making unauthorized pages for restaurants and using them to take a cut of fees… Source link

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U.S. Supreme Court spurns Google bid to avoid shareholder lawsuit

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left private user data exposed. The justices left in place a lower court’s ruling that revived the lawsuit brought over the 2018 incident that the company was slow to disclose, turning away Alphabet’s appeal. The lawsuit, led by the state of Rhode Island, was filed… Source link

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Opinion | A lawsuit against Google points out a much bigger privacy problem – The Washington Post

Every month seems to bring a new salvo against Big Tech — the latest from three state attorneys general and the District’s Karl A. Racine (D). The lawsuit argues that Google has deceived customers into giving up sensitive data. Yet the problem is bigger than one company, and the solution can’t come only from the courts. The complaints filed in late January by the top enforcers in D.C., Indiana, Texas and Washington allege that the world’s largest search engine told users they could… Source link

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Colin Kaepernick’s attorney lauds Brian Flores lawsuit

For roughly 16 months, Colin Kaepernick’s legal team at Geragos & Geragos went toe to toe with the NFL in a grievance process that remains completely shrouded to this day. Discovery was performed. High-ranking depositions were recorded. Arbitration hearings were convened. Finally, it ended in a settlement agreement in February of 2019. Three years later, everything dug up in that process remains locked away under a confidentiality agreement struck between the league and Kaepernick. Few… Source link

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Brian Flores is pulling Bill Belichick deeper into lawsuit

Five years ago this month, William Stephen Belichick was entered as a possible material witness in the Aaron Hernandez double-murder trial. Ultimately, those proceedings came and went without the New England Patriots coach being called for testimony. But if you’re listening to Brian Flores right now, things could go far differently in the class-action lawsuit filed by the former Miami Dolphins coach. Because the more Flores speaks, the more he appears to point to Belichick as being a… Source link

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Purdue University lawsuit says Google copied smartphone technology

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register University’s patent covers tech for fixing software code Complaint says Google engineer copied code for Android software (Reuters) – Purdue University’s Purdue Research Foundation has sued Google LLC in Texas federal court, alleging that Android software for eliminating programming errors in smartphones copies… Source link

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