Lawmakers in California and elsewhere can no longer take the tech industry's word when their armies of lobbyists make the case that they police themselves and shouldn't be held accountable.

A journalism expert says Assembly Bill 886 would finally give news outlets leverage and force Big Tech to negotiate. A public interest media advocate says the proposal would favor larger outlets and incentivize clickbait.

The ruling did not affect other claims in the antitrust case about Google's  search engine, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.

The 40-acre piece of land was purchased by Google in 2019 with the goal of growing trees in an environmentally sound way for its future and current campuses.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

The lawsuit alleges that Google leverages control over online advertising, driving out competition and receiving profits that far exceed what could be made in a competitive market.

Mayor Matt Mahan tried to reassure the public that Google remains committed to San Jose in the long term, and San Jose is committed to Google.

The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which California, New York and six other states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company for anticompetitive practices since 2020.

Google’s ad business hides the identities of all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. Propublica uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

The Silicon Valley Guaranteed Income Project will give 150 Santa Clara County families who are experiencing homelessness or unstable housing $1,000 per month in no-strings-attached cash assistance for 24 months.

Google was accused of losing data critical to the investigation of a $4 billion cryptocurrency money laundering scheme. As part of the settlement, the company said it spent over $90 million to improve its ability to respond to future data requests.

The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.

Loan arrangement aims to help increase housing opportunities across the Bay Area.

The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.

Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges that Google violated other state and federal laws by requiring apps distributed on Google Play to use Google Play’s billing system for in-app purchases and refusing to distribute apps on Google Play that use their own billing system.

The number of Justice Department and other police requests has soared in recent years to thousands a week, putting Apple and other tech giants like Google and Microsoft in an uncomfortable position between law enforcement, the courts and the customers whose privacy they have promised to protect.