The parent company of the Daily Mail and Mail Online is suing Google for alleged anti-competitive behavior by manipulating search results and ad auctions that cause harm to online publishers. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Manhattan, alleges that Google built a dominant position in the digital advertising market and is using…
Daily Mail Owner Files Lawsuit Against Google for Monopoly Over Digital Ads
Google Found Guilty of Misleading Australian Customers on Data Collection
April 16, 2021
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The Australian Federal Court has found Google guilty of misleading customers about personal location data collection on android mobile devices in a world-first enforcement action by the country’s consumer watchdog. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been pursuing legal action against Google’s “misleading conduct” since Oct. 2019. “This is an important victory for consumers,…
Peter Thiel Calls Out Big Tech’s Collaboration With Chinese Communist Regime
Tech billionaire investor Peter Thiel criticized major U.S. technology companies for being too cozy with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and called on them to undo their Chinese ties. “Since everything in China is civilian-military fusion, Google was effectively working with the Chinese military, not with the American military,” said Thiel in a virtual roundtable…
Ending Big Tech Tyranny
April 7, 2021
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Commentary On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas announced that the Supreme Court soon will have to put an end to big tech tyranny. He cited the “glaring” problem of social media platforms like Facebook and Google wielding unlimited power to censor users whose views they don’t like. These tech giants, he argued, ought to be regulated…
Big Tech Wins at the Supreme Court, Software Entrepreneurs Lose
Commentary In the early days of software, those against patenting software argued that copyright protection would suffice. They got their wish with the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank (pdf) that effectively made software unpatentable. The recent decision in Oracle v. Google (pdf) gave a big win to Google and effectively makes software…
Supreme Court Rules Google Did Not Violate Copyright Law When it Used Oracle Code for Androids
Google did not infringe Oracle’s copyright when it used that company’s programming code in the Android cellphone operating system, the Supreme Court ruled this morning overturning a lower court ruling that favored Oracle. Oracle had been seeking an estimated $9 billion in damages in the decade-old litigation between the tech companies that could have changed…
Supreme Court Rules Google Didn’t Violate Copyright Law When It Used Oracle Code for Android
Google didn’t infringe Oracle’s copyright when it used that company’s programming code in the Android cellphone operating system, the Supreme Court ruled April 5 in overturning a lower court ruling that favored Oracle. Android is the most popular cellphone operating system in the world. Oracle had been seeking $9 billion in damages in the decade-old…
Youtube Deleted 2.5 Million ‘Dislikes’ From Biden White House Videos, Data Indicates
April 2, 2021
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Youtube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous. YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new page design that hides the dislike count. The Google-owned video platform allows users…
5 More States, Territories Join in Texas Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
March 16, 2021
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Tuesday that five additional states and territories have joined their anti-trust lawsuit against Google, which alleges antitrust violations and deceptive acts by the technology behemoth. Attorneys general from Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada, and Puerto Rico joined the multi-state lawsuit, which is led by Texas, that was originally filed by…
Fortnite’s Epic Games Extends Legal Battle With Google to Australia
Epic Games has extended its legal battle with Google to Australia, pursuing the tech giant over anti-competitive practices, after the developer’s hit game ‘Fortnite’ was removed from the store last year. Epic Games has previously sued both Google and Apple over alleged anti-competitive practices in the United States and Europe. It comes as the Australian regulator…
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