Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who secured the settlement, brought the suits in 2022…
Pinterest recently agreed to pay $34.7 million to settle a lawsuit from an early adviser who claimed she had co-created the platform without compensation. Christine Martinez, 44, who was a friend of Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra, two of Pinterest’s three co-founders, sued the company in 2021 for breach of implied contract, idea theft, unjust…
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has lobbied President Trump and his aides to resolve a federal antitrust lawsuit against his company that is set to go to trial on April 14, three people with knowledge of the matter said. Mr. Zuckerberg has made several trips to the White House and Mar-a-Lago to discuss…
