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USA: Lawsuit alleges Google violated privacy law by tracking app users despite their opting out
Author: Paresh Dave, Reuters
"Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out," 14 July 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News Technology and Human Rights: Digital Freedom
- Related companies: Alphabet Facebook Google (part of Alphabet) Oracle
Oxfam America proposes a COVID-19 Pandemic Profits Tax to help reverse inequalities & rebuild better post-pandemic
Author: Oxfam America
"Pandemic profits exposed," 22 July 2020 Seventeen of the top 25 most profitable US corporations, including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer, and Visa, are expected to make almost $85 billion more in 2020 super-profits compared to...
- Related in-depth areas: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak: Government & business response
- Related companies: AbbVie Alphabet Amazon.com Apple AT&T Berkshire Hathaway Charter Chevron Cisco Systems Comcast CVS ExxonMobil Facebook Google (part of Alphabet) Intel Johnson & Johnson Merck Microsoft Oracle Pfizer Procter & Gamble The Home Depot, Inc. UnitedHealth Group Verizon Visa Group Walmart
USA: Congress scrutinizes Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook in antitrust hearing
Author: Cecilia Kang and David McCabe, New York Times
"Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders," 29 July 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: Technology and Human Rights
- Related companies: Alphabet Amazon.com Apple Facebook Google (part of Alphabet) Instagram (part of Facebook) Microsoft
Author: Noticias ONU
“Las compañías tecnológicas y de redes sociales se lucran a costa de información errónea y discriminación, afirma experta” - 15 de julio de 2020...
- Related companies: Alibaba.com Alphabet Amazon.com Apple Facebook Google (part of Alphabet) Microsoft Tencent
Author: RFI
"Taxe GAFA: Washington menace Paris de plus d’un milliard de dollars de sanctions", 11 juillet 2020...
- Related companies: Alphabet Amazon.com Apple Facebook Google (part of Alphabet)
Author: Panorama (Venezuela)
“YouTube subrayó que su lucha contra los supremacistas comenzó hace un año” – 29 de junio de 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: Pasos positivos
- Related companies: Alphabet Google (part of Alphabet) YouTube (part of Alphabet)
USA: Google faces $5 billion class action for tracking users in 'Incognito' browsing mode
Author: Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
"Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use," 2 June 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News Technology and Human Rights
- Related companies: Alphabet Google (part of Alphabet)
USA: Company executives speak out against racism following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor & Tony McDade by police
On 25 May 2020, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned George Floyd to the ground, keeping his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, ultimately killing him. Three additional officers were involved. All four officers...
USA: State of Arizona files suit against Google for alleged violation of consumer fraud laws
Author: Tyler Sonnemaker, Business Insider
"Arizona sues Google over claims it illegally collected location data from smartphone users even after they opted out," 27 May 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News Technology and Human Rights
- Related companies: Alphabet Google (part of Alphabet)