Sources: BBC
The human rights group International Rights Advocates formally launches a lawsuit in the United States against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (Google), Tesla, Inc., Dell and Microsoft on behalf of 14 Congolese families whose children died or were injured in Copperbelt mines that supply cobalt for the firms' lithium-ion battery products. 2019-12-16
The European Court of Justice rules in favour of United States search engine Google in a landmark right to be forgotten case, rejecting a French privacy regulator's argument that Google should apply the rules to its results and domains globally and not only within the European Union. 2019-09-24
European Union regulators fine Google €1.49 billion for bundling Google Custom Search with its AdSense program which the regulators find as illegal under EU antitrust rules. 2019-03-20
In Germany, a Hamburg court fines Google €145,000 for violating privacy laws with its Street View service. 2013-04-22
Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007–2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords. 2013-03-9
Google says that first quarter earnings rose over 24%, with net profit increasing to $8.14 billion. 2012-04-12
Software company Oracle announces that it is looking for damages "in the billions of dollars" from Google in an ongoing patent law action over the smartphone. 2011-06-16
The Organization of American States urges Nicaragua and Costa Rica to withdraw their security forces from an island in the San Juan river. Google is blamed for the dispute and revises its maps. 2010-11-14
Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices. 2010-10-22
Google admits it has been mistakenly collecting information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks for the past three years and grounds its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information. 2010-05-15