Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

In September, a federal jury in California found Google liable on two counts of privacy violations for continuing to collect the data of millions of users who had turned off a data tracking setting in ...

WASHINGTON — If you used Google search between 2006 and 2013, you may be eligible to apply for part of a $23 million class-action settlement. The settlement is the result of a lawsuit accusing Google ...

Google is facing an $800 million class-action lawsuit in California, with Android users alleging the tech giant misappropriated their cellphone data. The plaintiffs claim Google surreptitiously sends ...

Edtech companies like Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google came under scrutiny for allegedly breaking U.K. data laws, the Financial Times reports. The companies reportedly left ...

(Reuters) - There’s a lot of sound and fury in the class action bar about the propriety of so-called cy pres-only settlements, in which all of the settlement money goes to charity instead of to class ...

Google's parent company said its results were hurt by weakness in digital advertising during the global pandemic AFP / Ben STANSALL Google may have shut down its social media site Google Plus, but the ...

[Editor's Note: This story has been updated since it was first published. Christophe Bisciglia's name was originally misspelled.] At 26 and at the top of his game as one of Google's vaunted software ...

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