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DOJ accuses Google of destroying chat evidence | The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges Google intentionally destroyed internal communications, violating a court order in an antitrust case. |
According to a filing this week, the DOJ asserted Google "continually failed to disclose" its policy of auto-deleting certain internal chat logs of employees after 24 hours. The government signaled it wanted the logs as part of its broader case against the company. "Google's daily destruction of written records prejudiced the United States by depriving it of a rich source of candid discussions between Google's executives, including likely trial witnesses," the DOJ said. Google has pushed back, maintaining it preserved all potentially relevant communications. In a statement to CNN, Google said, "We strongly refute the DOJ's claims." "Our teams have conscientiously worked for years to respond to inquiries and litigation. In fact, we have produced over 4 million documents in this case alone, and millions more to regulators around the world," the company added. The broader antitrust case targets Google's market power in the search industry. It is part of a growing litany of antitrust cases facing the tech giant as regulators and lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad take a harsh look at competition in the tech industry. Google has pushed back on the allegations of anti-competitive behavior in search. The DOJ filed a second lawsuit against Google earlier this year. Catch up on more of the legal challenges facing Google in our previous coverage at TheHill.com. |
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Telecom equipment maker Ericsson plans to lay off 8,500 of its employees globally to cut costs, according to a memo sent to employees from the company's CEO Börje Ekholm. “The way headcount reductions will be managed will differ depending on local country practice,” Ekholm wrote. According to Reuters, the layoffs are predicted to affect North America and would be the largest to hit the telecom industry. The … |
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — While anyone can be an artist, writer, or musician and therefore entitled to copyright protections for their work, content made by artificial intelligence is no longer open to those same legal shields. A decision by the U.S. Copyright Office has ruled against protection of AI copyrights for generated works, be they art, writing or music. The decision came in response to a copyright application for a comic … |
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The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of Florida announced on Wednesday the arrest and extradition of a Russian man who allegedly developed and sold a malicious software program that breached protected computers by decrypting login credentials like passwords. Dariy Pankov, 28, was arrested in the Republic of Georgia in October and was later extradited to the U.S., where he faces multiple charges, including access … |
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Correction: Live Nation President and CFO Joe Berchtold testified at last month’s hearing. A bipartisan duo of lawmakers, Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah.), are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to further its investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by events companies Live Nation and Ticketmaster. In a letter sent on Thursday to Jonathan Kanter, DOJ's Antitrust Division assistant attorney … |
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E-bike batteries blamed for 22 NYC fires, 2 deaths this year |
NEW YORK (AP) — Lithium ion batteries used to power electric bicycles and scooters have already sparked 22 fires that caused 36 injuries and two deaths in New York City this year, four times the number of fires linked to the batteries by this time last year, officials said Friday. Fire Commissioner … |
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is charging ahead with his plan to create a bipartisan House task force designed to lay out ground rules for booting … Read more |
| The grim realities of Russia's war in Ukraine — tens of thousands dead, international isolation and a declining quality of life — are not part of the … Read more |
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