Google ordered to pay $425.7 million in damages for improperly tracking smartphone activity

[ad_1] A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July…

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New York attorney general appeals ruling that erased Trump’s massive penalty in civil fraud case

[ad_1] New York’s attorney general moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a notice of appeal with the state’s Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse the mid-level Appellate Division’s…

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Judge rips DOJ for causing “embarrassment” for the government as it dismisses another D.C. felony case

[ad_1] A federal judge excoriated the Justice Department over its handling of criminal cases during the Trump administration’s ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C., saying at a hearing Thursday that the department has brought “embarrassment and shame” on the government during its “rush” to charge individuals. U.S. District Judge Zia Faruqui apologized to Edward Dana,…

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