Case Against Google And Facebook

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized Rs 8.26 crore in a case against Pigeon Education Technology India Private Limited under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, according to an official statement issued on Friday. In its statement, the ED said that an investigation found that the company was owned by Chinese nati...

Facebook messages of a mother-daughter duo over abortion are being investigated in Nebraska after the US Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. Since the ruling, there has been a concern on how collected location data, text messages, search histories, emails and seemingly innocuous period and ovulation-tracking apps could be used to prosecute people ...

Russia's communications regulator on Tuesday said it had drawn up two administrative cases against Google for failing to remove banned information from its YouTube video-sharing platform.

A US appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists, and dissidents.

Four more states have joined a lawsuit filed by Texas and others against Google that accuses it of breaking antitrust laws to boost its already dominant advertising business, the Texas attorney general said.

Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests.

Google and Facebook had agreed to "cooperate and assist one another" in case of antitrust action against their work together in online advertising, the Wall Street Journal has said in a report, citing a unredacted draft version of the lawsuit filed against Google by 10 states in the US.

Facebook was sued by US antitrust officials and a coalition of states that want to break up the company by unwinding its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, deals the government says were part of a campaign to illegally crush competition.

The case - brought by Austria's Green party over insults to its leader - has international ramifications as the court ruled the postings must be deleted across the platform and not just in Austria.

Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp and Twitter Inc will all file or sign on to amicus briefs in support of Apple Inc's fight against a magistrate's order, which requires it to help the US Federal Bureau of Investigation break into a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

US officials have told the Indian government that they cannot serve summons to Facebook and Google executives, as requested by a Delhi court, because that impacts "free speech principles."

The Delhi High Court will today take up the petitions filed by Google and Facebook challenging the summons issued to their executives by the lower court, for objectionable content posted on their websites.

A Delhi court today discharged Yahoo! from the civil petition that accuses 20 internet companies like Facebook and Google of hosting objectionable content on their website.

Yahoo India has been dropped from the list of 22 companies facing criminal charges in a Delhi court. The firms - which include Google, Facebook and YouTube - have been taken to court by journalist Vinay Rai over morphed and obscene photos. The firms have been accused of conspiring to distribute lascivious content.

In a Delhi court today, Yahoo argued that a civil case it's fighting is without any merit. The internet giant in a statement today said that "generalised social evils alleged against some of the prominent social networking websites cannot be fastened onto it (Yahoo)." 22 internet companies in India including Facebook, Google and Orkut have been ac...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized Rs 8.26 crore in a case against Pigeon Education Technology India Private Limited under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, according to an official statement issued on Friday. In its statement, the ED said that an investigation found that the company was owned by Chinese nati...

Facebook messages of a mother-daughter duo over abortion are being investigated in Nebraska after the US Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. Since the ruling, there has been a concern on how collected location data, text messages, search histories, emails and seemingly innocuous period and ovulation-tracking apps could be used to prosecute people ...

Russia's communications regulator on Tuesday said it had drawn up two administrative cases against Google for failing to remove banned information from its YouTube video-sharing platform.

A US appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists, and dissidents.

Four more states have joined a lawsuit filed by Texas and others against Google that accuses it of breaking antitrust laws to boost its already dominant advertising business, the Texas attorney general said.

Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests.

Google and Facebook had agreed to "cooperate and assist one another" in case of antitrust action against their work together in online advertising, the Wall Street Journal has said in a report, citing a unredacted draft version of the lawsuit filed against Google by 10 states in the US.

Facebook was sued by US antitrust officials and a coalition of states that want to break up the company by unwinding its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, deals the government says were part of a campaign to illegally crush competition.

The case - brought by Austria's Green party over insults to its leader - has international ramifications as the court ruled the postings must be deleted across the platform and not just in Austria.

Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp and Twitter Inc will all file or sign on to amicus briefs in support of Apple Inc's fight against a magistrate's order, which requires it to help the US Federal Bureau of Investigation break into a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

US officials have told the Indian government that they cannot serve summons to Facebook and Google executives, as requested by a Delhi court, because that impacts "free speech principles."

The Delhi High Court will today take up the petitions filed by Google and Facebook challenging the summons issued to their executives by the lower court, for objectionable content posted on their websites.

A Delhi court today discharged Yahoo! from the civil petition that accuses 20 internet companies like Facebook and Google of hosting objectionable content on their website.

Yahoo India has been dropped from the list of 22 companies facing criminal charges in a Delhi court. The firms - which include Google, Facebook and YouTube - have been taken to court by journalist Vinay Rai over morphed and obscene photos. The firms have been accused of conspiring to distribute lascivious content.

In a Delhi court today, Yahoo argued that a civil case it's fighting is without any merit. The internet giant in a statement today said that "generalised social evils alleged against some of the prominent social networking websites cannot be fastened onto it (Yahoo)." 22 internet companies in India including Facebook, Google and Orkut have been ac...