September 4, 2019 Ex-Google employee alleging pregnancy discrimination moves forward with claim A Google employee whose memo alleging discrimination against pregnant women went viral is moving forward with her claim against the company.
September 4, 2019 YouTube to pay massive $170M fine as it settles claims it violated children's privacy laws Google-owned YouTube has settled with the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General, offering to pay a fine of $170 million on allegations that it violated children's privacy laws.
September 3, 2019 Google targeted in new antitrust probe by state attorneys general More than half of America's state attorneys general are set to announce a new probe into Google over possible antitrust violations in a huge escalation against Big Tech.
September 3, 2019 YouTube removed 17,000 channels, 500 million comments under new hateful conduct policy YouTube has removed more than 17,000 channels and 100,000 videos, along with at least 500 million comments, since the company announced a broad crackdown on hate speech in June.
August 30, 2019 Google legal chief David Drummond accused of romances with subordinates in defiance of rules Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond regularly ignored the company's policy against office romances with subordinates, a scathing new blog post alleges..
August 28, 2019 PragerU exec blasts YouTube's 'laughable' claim it's politically neutral Craig Strazzeri, the chief marketing officer for Prager University, balked at Google's claim that its subsidiary YouTube lacked political bias -- arguing that the company's restrictions on PragerU had reached the "point of absurdity."
August 27, 2019 Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing self-driving car technology Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, who quit the tech giant before merging his own startup with Uber, has been charged with stealing Google's self-driving car trade secrets, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
August 26, 2019 Google cracks down on political speech among its workforce Google is cracking down on political speech at work amid a widespread backlash from politicians, activist groups and its own employees over a host of issues.
August 26, 2019 Controversial YouTube star PewDiePie hits 100 million subscribers in platform first YouTube creator "PewDiePie" hit a major milestone by becoming the first person to surpass 100 million subscribers on the video platform.
August 22, 2019 Google removes 210 YouTube channels in Hong Kong misinformation crackdown Google said Thursday that it had shut down 210 YouTube channels after the company learned they were tied to misinformation about the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
