All Google articles – Page 5
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ArticleLast-minute CCPA changes strike business-friendly tone
Recently approved tweaks to California’s upcoming privacy law don’t change the fact compliance prep should already be well underway, experts say.
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Google to pay $1B to resolve French tax disputes
Google will pay $1 billion in penalties and back taxes, putting to an end a pair of investigations in France into whether the tech giant properly declared the full extent of its activities in the country.
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Vestager keeps competition role in new Commission
Margrethe Vestager is staying put as Europe’s leader in the fight against anti-competitive practices, with a continued focus on Big Tech.
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Google facing antitrust investigation by 50 attorneys general
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed Monday that his office is leading an investigation by 50 attorneys general into technology giant Google for potential monopolistic business practices.
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ArticleEuropean Commission still gunning for Big Tech
Coming on the heels of big enforcement actions against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, the European Commission is vowing to keep fighting against technology giants profiting at others’ expense.
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Compliance lessons from the Google/Uber trade secrets mess
A federal grand jury’s indictment of Anthony Scott Levandowski for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Google may be a wake-up call to protect intellectual property more aggressively.
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ArticleGoogle, YouTube reach $170M ‘groundbreaking’ settlement for violating children’s privacy
Google and its subsidiary YouTube will pay $170 million to settle allegations that the video-sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent.
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ArticleAlexa isn’t sure if she cares about my privacy (and neither am I)
I lose no sleep over how much of my data privacy I potentially sacrifice in my daily life, and neither do most of us—deep down.
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ArticleHow GDPR, CCPA impact healthcare compliance
While most healthcare organizations have pretty much nailed down their data privacy requirements for HIPAA and HITECH, new privacy mandates under the GDPR and CCPA could throw a wrench into the system.
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ArticleDOJ launches antitrust probe into Big Tech
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an antitrust probe into Big Tech firms that are ”engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.”
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ArticleWhat we can learn from the biggest GDPR fines so far
Recent record-breaking fines for GDPR violations levied on British Airways and Marriott by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office offer a glimpse into what GDPR enforcement might look like going forward and serve up a warning to companies that data privacy protocols must be foolproof.
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ArticleAll eyes on how Ireland will handle Big Tech and GDPR
Ireland—home EU regulator to Big Tech firms including Google, Twitter, and Facebook—is the key country not to have issued a GDPR-related fine yet, though the regulator has said it has started at least 19 inquiries into the sector.
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ArticleCongress debates: Are tech giants bullies or saviors?
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple were called before Congress this week to debate what critics perceive as the anti-competitive, entrepreneur-chilling effects they trigger with their size and scope.
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ArticleGoogle, Amazon fire back: Rising tide lifts all boats
A common refrain—and effective defense—from tech companies at the House Judiciary hearing this week was that rather than stifling competition, their size and scope is responsible for a tide that raises all boats in their wake.
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ArticleU.K.'s CMA mulls new regulator to tackle Big Tech
The CMA, U.K.’s competition watchdog, explores whether a separate regulator is needed to oversee leading digital firms that have become “data monopolies” that stifle competition.
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ArticleVote: Would you give up social media use for lifetime data privacy?
Would you give up social media for life in order to guarantee a lifetime of data privacy? According to a study by global cyber-security company Kaspersky, nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent) consumers would.
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ArticleBreaking up is dumb to do
Is splitting up big tech companies a cure for their outsized influence? Probably not.
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ArticlePrivacy groups launch GDPR complaints
European privacy rights groups have launched a campaign to stop social media platforms and internet search engines from “spying” on users through online advertising by filing GDPR complaints with nine EU data regulators.
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Google probe a sign U.S. getting serious about breaking up Big Tech?
The DOJ has reportedly been laying the groundwork for a Google-focused antitrust investigation in what seems to be the latest signal regulators have the tech giants in their crosshairs.
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Ireland investigates Google over GDPR
The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Google’s online Ad Exchange violated General Data Protection Regulation provisions.