Google Violates Rules

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Monday ruled that Google had violated antitrust law by spending billions of dollars to secure exclusive agreements with developers, carriers and equipment makers to be the default search engine.

"Fortnite" maker Epic Games won a major antitrust trial against Alphabets Google in San Francisco, persuading a federal jury on Monday that some of the technology giants rules for its app Play store violated US competition law.

Japan's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it is investigating whether Google violated rules by asking smartphone manufacturers for preferential treatment.

Advocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tracking company of violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy regime.

Alphabet's Google violated a software developer's patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million (nearly Rs. 2,770 crore) in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that Google's Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming video...

A US appeals court ruled on Monday, allowing Apple, Google, Cisco and others to challenge the US Patent and Trademark Office over a rule that reduced the number of patent-validity proceedings at a USPTO tribunal. Apple, Google, Cisco, Intel and Edwards Lifesciences sued the PTO in the California federal court in 2020 over the rule. They argued it u...

The proposed data protection bill will put an end to misuse of customer data, and violators will face punitive action under the rule, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said today.

European Union's General Court on Wednesday upheld the EU's record fine against Google over its Android operating system for mobile phones. The court reduced the fine to EUR 4.125 billion from EUR 4.34 billion (roughly Rs. 34,157 crore) decided by the commission in 2018. Google voiced disappointment with the EU court judgment.

South Korea's telecommunications regulator Korea Communications Commissions (KCC) revealed that Google, Apple and One Store may have violated rules after an inspection that began on May 17, and that it would launch in investigation into these app store operators.

Google has acted on 1,11,493 harmful pieces of content in June of this year in accordance with the new India IT Rules, 2021. The removed content included categories like copyright infringement, trademarks, court orders, explicit sexual material, fraud, and others. The actions were taken as a result of automated detection mechanisms used by Google's...

Apple will be fined by Russia's competition authority for violating the country’s antitrust laws by violating its dominant position in the app store market, according to the regulator. The Cupertino company will face a turnover-based fine after an administrative investigation, the federal anti-monopoly service said.

India reissued new rules on social media companies on Monday. The rules, which were proposed but abruptly withdrew last week, were issued without any changes. The Indian government believes that the law was needed because the companies had violated users' constitutional rights in India.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a petition seeking action against Google for not complying with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

A federal judge blocked a recently enacted Florida law that was meant to authorize the state to penalise social media companies when they ban political candidates, with the judge saying the law likely violated free speech rights.

WhatsApp has sued the government over new digital rules that it says violate user privacy and the fundamental right to freedom of speech. It argues strongly against breaking end-to-end encryption and tracing the "first originator" of information.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Monday ruled that Google had violated antitrust law by spending billions of dollars to secure exclusive agreements with developers, carriers and equipment makers to be the default search engine.

"Fortnite" maker Epic Games won a major antitrust trial against Alphabets Google in San Francisco, persuading a federal jury on Monday that some of the technology giants rules for its app Play store violated US competition law.

Japan's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it is investigating whether Google violated rules by asking smartphone manufacturers for preferential treatment.

Advocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tracking company of violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy regime.

Alphabet's Google violated a software developer's patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million (nearly Rs. 2,770 crore) in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that Google's Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming video...

A US appeals court ruled on Monday, allowing Apple, Google, Cisco and others to challenge the US Patent and Trademark Office over a rule that reduced the number of patent-validity proceedings at a USPTO tribunal. Apple, Google, Cisco, Intel and Edwards Lifesciences sued the PTO in the California federal court in 2020 over the rule. They argued it u...

The proposed data protection bill will put an end to misuse of customer data, and violators will face punitive action under the rule, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said today.

European Union's General Court on Wednesday upheld the EU's record fine against Google over its Android operating system for mobile phones. The court reduced the fine to EUR 4.125 billion from EUR 4.34 billion (roughly Rs. 34,157 crore) decided by the commission in 2018. Google voiced disappointment with the EU court judgment.

South Korea's telecommunications regulator Korea Communications Commissions (KCC) revealed that Google, Apple and One Store may have violated rules after an inspection that began on May 17, and that it would launch in investigation into these app store operators.

Google has acted on 1,11,493 harmful pieces of content in June of this year in accordance with the new India IT Rules, 2021. The removed content included categories like copyright infringement, trademarks, court orders, explicit sexual material, fraud, and others. The actions were taken as a result of automated detection mechanisms used by Google's...

Apple will be fined by Russia's competition authority for violating the country’s antitrust laws by violating its dominant position in the app store market, according to the regulator. The Cupertino company will face a turnover-based fine after an administrative investigation, the federal anti-monopoly service said.

India reissued new rules on social media companies on Monday. The rules, which were proposed but abruptly withdrew last week, were issued without any changes. The Indian government believes that the law was needed because the companies had violated users' constitutional rights in India.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a petition seeking action against Google for not complying with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

A federal judge blocked a recently enacted Florida law that was meant to authorize the state to penalise social media companies when they ban political candidates, with the judge saying the law likely violated free speech rights.

WhatsApp has sued the government over new digital rules that it says violate user privacy and the fundamental right to freedom of speech. It argues strongly against breaking end-to-end encryption and tracing the "first originator" of information.