Tag Archives: Privacy

By Paulina Duran and Nikhil Nainan SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator on Monday accused Alphabet’s Google of misleading consumers to get permission for use of their personal data for targeted advertising, seeking a fine “in the millions” and aiming to establish a precedent. The move comes as scrutiny grows worldwide over data privacy, with U.S. and European lawmakers recently focusing on how tech… Source link

Google was hit with a class action lawsuit claiming privacy violations via Android apps. The plaintiffs allege that Google misleads users with false impressions of control over their data. The lawsuit alleges that Google’s privacy controls are fake and that Google is illegally intercepting and selling private information. The plaintiffs also claim that Google’s privacy controls do not stop Google from harvesting and selling sensitive online activity information. The lawsuit presents what it… Source link

In a set of new lawsuits, two Illinois residents argue that three tech giants violated state laws prohibiting the use of personal biometric data without permission. Illinois residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk allege that images of their faces appeared in IBM’s “Diversity in Faces” database without their consent and were used to train facial recognition systems at Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet. While all three companies are based on the West Coast,… Source link

Class-action status sought as Google tracking opt-out status questioned SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Last month I reported how lawyers had filed a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking damages of at least $5 billion (£4 billion) against Google, alleging the illegal collection of information during Chrome browser incognito mode sessions. Now, the same law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, has filed another Google data privacy lawsuit seeking… Source link