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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

Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States.
2019-06-2

Google reports that they will not renew a contract with the U.S. military to develop machine learning algorithms for drones.
2018-06-2

Google is being sued over alleged inequality in the pay of male and female employees.
2017-09-14

Warner Brothers is accused of self-censorship after it tagged its own websites for copyright infringement through the search engine Google.
2016-09-6

The United States Federal Communications Commission rejects privacy advocacy group Consumer Watchdog's petition to make it illegal for Internet companies like Google, Facebook and ad providers to ignore "Do Not Track" browser settings.
2015-11-6

Google agrees to pay $7 millions to settle a privacy lawsuit over the handling of wireless data.
2013-03-12

Google announces that it plans to shut down its Google Buzz social network.
2011-10-14

Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google Doodle.
2010-10-8

A policy proposal by Google and Verizon regarding the way internet service is regulated comes under criticism from groups promoting net neutrality.
2010-08-10