Engineer who stole trade secrets from Google among those pardoned by Trump
Anthony Levandowski’s pardon had the support of billionaire Peter Thiel, who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign
Australia’s proposed media code could break the world wide web, says the man who invented it
Tim Berners-Lee says the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content undermines the web’s ‘fundamental principle’
US attacks Australia’s ‘extraordinary’ plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news
The US in a submission to a Senate inquiry favours a voluntary code rather than government regulation
Google refuses to answer questions about removing Australian news sites from search results
Google’s ‘experiments’ prompt treasurer to call on tech giants to pay for news instead of blocking them
Google’s ‘experiment’ hiding Australian news just shows its inordinate power
By just tinkering with that power, by conducting little ‘experiments’, it can make or break news businesses
Australia’s competition regulator flags legal cases against tech companies over ads
Rod Sims says competition law cases or consumer law cases may follow an inquiry into so-called ‘ad tech’
Google admits to running ‘experiments’ which remove some media sites from its search results
The tech giant says it is ‘running a few experiments that will each reach about 1% of Google Search users in Australia’
Donald Trump being banned from social media is a dangerous distraction
Facebook, Google and Twitter must be broken up and and local information providers revived. If not, worse is coming
Trump attempted a coup: he must be removed while those who aided him pay
A swift impeachment is imperative but from Rudy Giuliani and Don Jr to Fox News and Twitter, the president did not act alone
More than 200 US Google employees form a workers’ union
Employees signed cards to join the Alphabet Workers Union, to ensure work at a fair wage and without fear of abuse
All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
The tech giants’ law-free bonanza is coming to an end on both sides of the Atlantic, but let’s speed up the process
Tech platforms vowed to address racial equity: how have they fared?
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and Amazon issued statements in response to Black Lives Matter this year but did they follow through?
NSO Group spyware ‘dangerous’, say tech firms in legal filing
Israeli company should be held liable to American anti-hacking laws, Google, Microsoft and others argue
Google faces $400m fine over Fitbit takeover if it doesn’t wait for competition watchdog’s approval
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission concerned tech giant could harm competitors in wake of deal
Google Maps postcode error leads delivery drivers on wild pizza chase
A mix-up on the tech giant’s service has meant three years of frustration for Simon Borghs, and highlights our reliance on the data private companies hold