Uber Technologies Inc. was considering buying the driverless-car startup of a former Google engineer two days after he resigned from the tech giant, and was already anticipating a lawsuit if it did, attorneys for Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.07%GOOGL, +0.08% said in federal court here Wednesday. The new evidence appears to affirm allegations by Google’s driverless-car …
In court testimony on Friday, a Labor Department (DoL) official accused Google of “systemic compensation disparities against women,” as part of an ongoing federal probe of the company. DoL Regional Director Janette Wipper testified that,“We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” according to a report by the Guardian. Another DoL official …
Accused of stealing a key sensor for self-driving cars from rival Waymo, Uber argued Friday that it started developing its own lidar months before hiring one of Waymo’s former top engineers. Waymo sued Uber in February, saying that the engineer — Anthony Levandowski — had taken Waymo’s proprietary design for lidar, a laser version of radar that autonomous vehicles use to scan their surroundings. In a long-awaited court filing Friday, Uber said …
A federal judge in San Jose has rejected Google’s proposed settlement with non-Gmail users who claim Google illegally scanned their emails to Gmail users to target them with advertising, Reuters reports. In a decision released Wednesday night, District Judge Lucy Koh said the disclosure requirements were inadequate and the settlement did not include technical changes Google would make to comply …
A Ninth Circuit judge on Monday questioned whether a federal judge made the right call by allowing Google to settle a privacy class action by giving $8.5 million to favored privacy organizations instead of class members. Though Senior Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace repeatedly questioned at the hearing whether the 2015 cy pres settlement was appropriate, the three-judge …
Uber’s very bad February just got worse. Google’s (er, Alphabet’s) self-driving car company, Waymo, filed a lawsuit against Uber on Thursday, claiming Uber stole its design for a laser-scanning detection system from Waymo. The heart of the claim focuses on Otto, a self-driving trucking company founded by former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski and acquired by Uber for $680 million in August …
Google Faces Lawsuit Over California Student Privacy Violations Oracle filed the brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overrule the 2016 decision saying that Google’s copying was “the software equivalent of this classic unfair use,” The Hill newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper added that the appeal brief noted “enormous commercial benefits” and the fact that Google …
Attorney General Jim Hood has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state against Google Inc. The lawsuit alleges that the company uses data collected from Mississippi public school students who have Google’s G Suite For Education accounts.
A public-interest law firm that represents class members against unfair class action procedures and settlements has filed an objection to a $5.5 million settlement with Google Inc. over allegations that the search engine giant circumvented web browser privacy settings. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness filed its objection …
Google tentatively agreed to undergo a significant change to the way it gathers user information from emails thanks to a proposed settlement to a privacy lawsuit filed against the search company in a northern California district court, according to a report from the Verge . The change will require Google to hold off on collecting any advertising data before an email is made available in a …