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against Google, joined by 11 states attorneys general, alleging the tech giant has used its dominant position in the online search market unfairly against competitors. But the issues raised by the lawsuit hint at where regulators and lawmakers will aim to restrain the tech giant — perhaps even, down the line, refashion the company itself.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The New York Attorney General and the Connecticut Attorney General are investigating the Google data breach that may have exposed the private data of at least 500,000 users. Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made the data accessible to developers.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The Mississippi Attorney General (AG) revealed that his office is preparing an antitrust case against Google , accusing the tech giant of controlling a “pipeline” of data. “We Hood said he wants all the major tech companies to adopt practices similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Google users in the U.K. will no longer have access to European Union data security, instead being moved by the tech giant to American jurisdiction, according to officials, according to Reuters on Wednesday (Feb. Google will require its users in the U.K. Ireland, which hosts the headquarters of Google and other big U.S.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint shows that Google may have misused people’s personal data and categorized them in highly sensitive ways, according to reports. Google’s ad technology apparently labels users depending on their internet activity, noted a report in TechCrunch.

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JULY 12, 2019

The news that Google hired contractors to listen to voice recordings from users has prompted a possible investigation by Irish data privacy regulators, according to a report by Bloomberg. Belgian broadcaster VRT broke the news and Google responded in a blog post about it on Thursday (July 12). Google said that only about 0.2

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APRIL 14, 2019

Bitcoin exchange Bakkt has hired PayPal and Google alum Mike Blandina as its chief product officer. Previously, Blandina was at Google Wallet, where he was engineering director of payments, and at PayPal as vice president of engineering. is similar to training, adding that “race day is approaching.”. dollars for use at Starbucks.”.

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JUNE 16, 2020

This is the second post in a series on Google healthcare capabilities. With the number of tech-savvy patients increasing, it is becoming a requirement to provide easy accessibility while maintaining top security. GCP enables you to stay compliant with HIPAA and FedRAMP regulations with their built-in standards.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Google is facing a privacy complaint filed by a group of European consumer watchdogs that contend the internet giant used manipulative tactics to track the locations of web users so that it could target ads to them. When we carry our phones, Google is recording where we go, down to which floor we are on and how we are moving.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Regulators’ influence over non-banks is limited, and banks are left to vet their own vendors. Bank regulations hadn’t “sufficiently modernized to accommodate cloud and other innovative technologies,” according to a U.S. Tech giant oversight is progressing despite objections from companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

India has proposed new rules regarding how technology companies use data, and the proposal is similar to Europe’s GDPR regulation, according to a report by TechCrunch. The new regulation would also let New Delhi have the ability to ask any “data fiduciary or data processor” to provide “anonymized non-personal data” to help the government.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Google is really taking control of its own destiny this week. It made moves to appease the European regulators who slapped it with a $2.7 To appease European antitrust regulators and avoid any further fines, Google is reportedly turning its Google Shopping service into an independent unit within the company.

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MAY 28, 2020

In today’s top news, Google reported a resurgence of hacking and phishing attempts in April, and tech companies are making deals at their fastest pace since 2015. Google Reports Resurgence in Pandemic Hacking, Phishing. Plus, Samsung and SoFi have partnered to offer a new mobile money management tool.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Law enforcement agencies around the country are increasingly going after search warrants to obtain information from Google, based on the location data of phones near crimes, The New York Times reported. Police obtained a search warrant that obligated Google to provide information on all devices near the killing.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Google has inked a pact with China’s multinational investment holding conglomerate Tencent Holdings in a deal that cross-licenses a number of patents. On the Tencent side, the work with Google would follow a number of investments made over the past several months, including funds for both Tesla and Spotify, among others.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Firms like Google, Alibaba and Facebook could be forced to share data with banks and FinTech firms. Many companies — like Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Alipay and Google — have acquired payments-related licenses in Luxembourg, Ireland, Lithuania and other EU countries. .

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MARCH 30, 2018

With fresh concerns about government regulation of cryptocurrency surfacing, Bitcoin and other digital tokens continued the recent declines in value, erasing $550 billion in value for the global cryptocurrency market since the start of 2018. After all, one of the appeals of digital tokens is that they are not regulated and are anonymous.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ongoing security concerns have prompted the Federal Reserve to further scrutinize big tech firms that serve the banking industry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (Nov. The Bank Service Company Act gives financial regulators the power to audit third-party vendors that offer banking services, Ashton said.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Facebook , which has been under fire for months over data scandals, expressed openness to new regulation. According to a report in Reuters citing Facebook’s public policy manager Karim Palant, the executive said the social media giant is “open to meaningful regulation.” Google in 2012 paid $22.5 Google in 2012 paid $22.5

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Google could be hit with a class-action lawsuit and calls for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate its location tracking initiatives. That prompted an individual in San Diego to launch a lawsuit against Google , while activists are wondering if the practices violate the company’s 2011 agreement with the FTC.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

increased regulation over content delivered online through platforms may be on the horizon. This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. In the U.K.,

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Fines levied under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) jumped almost 40 percent in the past 12 months as European Union (EU) regulators stepped up enforcement efforts, Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday (Jan. More than 50 percent of those penalties were levied by Italy and Germany.

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MARCH 7, 2017

According to a report in The New York Times , the investigation in Turkey is focused on the way Google offers up digital services as part of a suite of software related to Android, its widely popular mobile operating system. Yandex argues that practice on the part of Google results in an uneven playing field and thus is unfair.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It is very unlikely that one can totally stop people from buying Libra despite rigorous regulations.”. We have to get to a place where we can be confident that trading is better regulated.”. And the Iranian government wants new cryptocurrency mining regulations in the country. If the U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Google and Amazon are ready to shake up the small business lending world and place competitive pressure on traditional banks, according to Karen Mills, advisor for small businesses to former President Barack Obama. But, amid this shakeup, there are uncertainties — including how regulators will respond, Mills added. “I

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Also, Bill Ready, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer, is set to join Google as president of commerce. That’s why Mastercard is introducing a new digital resource that can instantly authenticate someone’s identity in a secure manner, removing the need for any physical documentation.

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MARCH 28, 2018

With concerns that technology companies can face more regulation, tech stocks were declining all over the globe — with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling 2.9 That has led to concerns that more regulation of the entire tech sector is coming. That has spurred investigations into the matter by regulators and lawmakers in the U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Regulators in the United States have reportedly met to discuss levying fines against social media giant Facebook , a punishment that could be sizable in scope and which comes in the wake of privacy violations. million paid by Google in 2012. The fine would reportedly be “record-setting” in scope and would eclipse the $22.5 billion.

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Facebook’s WhatsApp, Apple’s FaceTime and Skype are all on the European Commission’s list, which would include tightening security regulations. Regulatory changes are anticipated to include how security breaches are reported, as well as backup plan maintenance and other service policies. WhatsApp uses full-scale encryption. .

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APRIL 8, 2019

Australian financial regulators are feeling pressure to ensure financial institutions treat customers properly and have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) in an attempt to improve compliance, according to a report by the Financial Times. They also lied to regulators and adversely cost customers millions by giving bad advice.

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MAY 24, 2017

Google has long claimed that the ads it shows users actually prompt them to make purchases online and in real life – and now they have the credit card data to prove it. Google, for its part, has responded to those concerns with renewed assurances of its ability to protect the personal information of its users.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

The CFPB dropped its latest set of regulations for prepaid payments cards , to some cheers (for offering clarity on fees) and some jeers (for thinking that prepaid cards are credit products and require underwriting for $25, 24-hour overdrafts). Google Jumps Hard Into Hardware. Google is doing both. megapixel camera.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

It’s hardly news that consumers (along with regulators and politicians) are becoming increasingly focused on privacy and online security. These worries regarding connected vehicles are, in a broader sense, tied into larger security issues involving the Internet of Things (IoT) — to which all those cars and trucks will connect.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the charter would allow firms like Facebook, Google or Amazon to bypass the process by which they need to collect money transmitter licenses state by state. They argue that the OCC would oversee the new charter holders — but not as rigorously as state regulators would.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Twenty-two percent of American consumers state that they have been targeted by COVID-19-related fraud attempts since the pandemic’s onset, for example, leading financial authorities to work toward keeping consumers’ data more secure by changing how it is stored. Failing to secure such information could open up FIs to fraud. EU and U.K.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Google has reportedly patched a security weakness in its Chrome web browser for Android that could impact users’ privacy. ” The report noted that hackers could also use it to determine the device’s patch level of security and what vulnerabilities the hacker could exploit on it.

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MAY 25, 2016

The Business Email Compromise is now a top concern for the enterprise and security providers alike, especially since regulators have released warnings against the crime. PayPal, Facebook and LinkedIn are all using Agari email security solutions. email service, as well as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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