By Jeff Dale2024-02-07T18:00:00
Alphabet, the parent company of technology giant Google, agreed to pay $350 million in a preliminary settlement with shareholders over alleged data privacy violations and materially false and misleading statements linked to now-defunct social media site Google+.
The proposed deal, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, resolves claims by Alphabet shareholders that a glitch in Google+ allowed more 400 third-party companies to access the personal information of nearly half a million users.
The information exposed included full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived, occupation, and relationship status, according to the complaint.
2024-11-14T21:07:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined nearly 798 million euros (U.S. $841 million) by the European Commission to resolve the agency’s long-running investigation into alleged “abusive practices” by Facebook Marketplace.
2023-09-15T16:51:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Google agreed to pay $93 million as part of a settlement with the state of California regarding its location data privacy practices. The agreement is separate from a related $391.5 million settlement Google previously reached with a coalition of other states.
2023-06-27T22:58:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Google Cloud launched a new anti-money laundering product for financial institutions that utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace manually defined rules used to spot suspicious transactions.
2025-10-09T18:11:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
On-again-off-again tariffs, a down economy, and a long list of global supply chain disruptions are challenging U.S. food and beverage companies to adjust their supply chain operations in a variety of ways.
2025-09-25T20:36:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
New regulations, changing consumer demands, and global supply chain disruptions – from cost-of-goods inflation to tariffs to raw material shortages, and more – are just a few top challenges reshaping the operations of food and beverage industry today. “These challenges are no longer just logistical—they implicate sourcing risk, contract performance, ...
2025-09-17T19:03:00Z By Ruth Prickett
More than half of all compliance teams are “actively using” or “piloting” AI applications, according to a Moody’s report. While most are focusing on streamlining routine tasks, some are developing AI agents and asking vital questions about AI decision-making.
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