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Tech Industry Liability Will Reportedly Be Focus of Upcoming U.S. Justice Dept. Conference
The U.S. Justice Department is planning to hold a conference to discuss the future of a federal law which largely exempts online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post, ...
AI Will Produce a More Profound Change Than Fire: Google CEO
Google's chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. "AI is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. It's ...
Google/Alphabet Pursues Mediation to Settle Investor Suits Over Sex Harassment
Alphabet Inc. is pursuing mediation to settle investor litigation alleging the company let senior leaders at Google get away with sexual harassment and misconduct for years. Company directors this ...
Lawmakers Push for Removal of Tech Liability Shield
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that tech companies are pushing to keep in new agreements, including a deal to ...
Insurance Site Struggles With Google’s Escalating Costs
"Where's the best place to hide a body? The second page of a Google search." The gallows humor shows that people rarely look beyond the first few results of a search, but Lee Griffin isn't laughing. ...
Score for Privacy: Google Email-Scanning Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Google is still fighting a lawsuit over surreptitious scanning of emails of non-Gmail users almost three years after it agreed to stop the practice. In a tentative ruling Thursday, a judge in ...
Ex-Alphabet Engineer Charged With Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Anthony Levandowski, accusing the former high-ranking Alphabet Inc engineer of stealing the company's self-driving car ...
Google Settles 2010 Privacy Lawsuit With Modest Payment Agreement
Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case everand threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in ...