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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google settles $5B privacy suit alleging it spied on incognito users  Business Insider Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Suit Over Chrome’s Incognito Mode  CNET Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]City to pay $500K to settle bikini barista dress code suit  Yahoo News Source link

Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) will report its Q4 earnings after the bell on Wednesday as investors and analysts look for signs that the broader digital advertising market has hit its bottom. Here’s what Wall Street expects from the company, as compiled by Bloomberg, compared to how the company performed in the same period last year. Alphabet had a 20-to-1 stock split in July 2022. The company, like Meta (META) and Snap (SNAP), is working to overcome a slowdown in the digital… Source link

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to sue Alphabet Inc. in the coming days over its dominance in the online ad market, according to a report late Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reported the antitrust suit is expected to be filed in federal court before the end of this week, and as soon as Tuesday. The pending filing has been rumored for months, after the Justice Department reportedly rejected concessions offered by… Source link

New You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! Alphabet Inc.’s Google defeated a privacy lawsuit by consumers who accused the company of snooping on them even after they opted out of sharing their web activity. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday dismissed claims that Google tracked users’ personal information, including IP addresses and browsing history, if they chose not to “Sync” their Google accounts with Chrome — and even if they didn’t have an… Source link

Dec 9 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator said on Friday its lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google that alleged consumers were misled about expanded use of personal data for targeted advertising had been dismissed by a court. The proceedings, initiated by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in July 2020, alleged Google did not explicitly take consent from users about a change made in 2016 that combined personal information in Google accounts with activity on… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and… Source link

Google will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office over the way the tech giant has used customers’ location data. The settlement averts a trial that was scheduled to begin on Oct. 24. Catch up quick: Attorney General Mark Brnovich began investigating Google in 2018 after the Associated Press reported that some of the company’s apps continued tracking and storing users’ location data even after they turned off the location history feature. Brnovich sued… Source link

Google is yet again under fire from for its alleged anticompetitive practices in online advertising.  According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice could sue Alphabet, Inc, the search engine’s parent company, for antitrust violations as early as next month.  Google Repeatedly Targeted by Antitrust Allegations In October 2020, the federal department of justice filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant, which currently accounts for an 83.84% of the global market. This suit,… Source link