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The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Tuesday, seeking the breakup of the company’s online ad business. This latest action comes more than two years after the agency and a group of state attorneys general joined in another suit alleging Google’s search and search advertising businesses violate U.S. antitrust laws. The Justice Department’s alleges that Google’s suite of online advertising tools prevents competitors from… Source link

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno mayor Hillary Schieve is suing a private investigator and his company after finding a device attached to her vehicle that was capable of tracking its real-time location. The lawsuit, first reported by The Nevada Independent on Thursday, alleges that the investigator trespassed onto her property to install the device without her consent. It says Schieve was unaware until a mechanic noticed it while working on her vehicle. The complaint says, further, that the… Source link

An unnamed New Hampshire couple are suing Google and its repair company because an employee allegedly posted an intimate picture of them to their contacts, disrupting their lives and the woman’s startup business. The suit, filed Nov. 29 in U.S. District Court in Concord by “John and Jane Doe,” names Goggle LLC and KMT Wireless LLC – doing business as Cynergy, a Texas Google vendor – and other entities and employees, particularly “Employee X.” It was filed by Lyons Law Office,… Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and seven U.S. states sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and iHeartMedia Inc (IHRT.O) on Monday over alleged deceptive ads promoting Google’s Pixel 4 smartphone in 2019 and 2020, the FTC said. “The Federal Trade Commission and seven state attorneys general sued Google LLC and iHeartMedia, Inc. today for airing nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google’s… Source link

SAN FRANCISCO —  The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elections – an allegation Google denies. The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail of “discriminating” against the RNC by unfairly sending the group’s emails to users’ spam folders, impacting both fundraising and… Source link

Oct 22 (Reuters) – The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Google on Friday, for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders. The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of “discriminating” against it by “throttling its email messages because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views,” according to a lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of California. “Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’… Source link

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the internet giant is violating state law by amassing facial and voice recognition data on Texans without their knowledge or consent. The lawsuit claims Google apps and devices indefinitely store data on facial geometry and voiceprints from anyone they capture, whether… Source link

The Texas attorney general filed a privacy lawsuit against Google on Thursday, accusing the internet company of collecting Texans’ facial and voice recognition information without their explicit consent. Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said Google had violated a state consumer protection law that requires companies to inform citizens and get their consent before capturing their biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints and a “record of hand or face… Source link

The Texas attorney general filed a privacy lawsuit against Google on Thursday, accusing the internet company of collecting Texans’ facial and voice recognition information without their explicit consent. Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said Google had violated a state consumer protection law that requires companies to inform citizens and get their consent before capturing their biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints and a “record of hand or face… Source link

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Texas has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google for allegedly collecting biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent, the attorney general’s office said in a statement on Thursday. The complaint says that companies operating in Texas have been barred for more than a decade from collecting people’s faces, voices or other biometric data without advanced, informed consent. “In blatant defiance of that law, Google has, since at… Source link