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Posted Feb 10, 2022, 10:37 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A bill that sought to slash the profits Apple and Google make from their app stores was rejected by Arizona legislators Wednesday, the second year in a row the Big Tech firms have kept such legislation from advancing. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 5:26 am
Rose Wagner
/Courthouse News Service
Attorneys general for three other states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits Monday against Google, alleging that the ubiquitous internet titan collected valuable data about its users' locations through deception - similar to the lawsuit filed by Arizona in 2020.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2022, 9:01 am
Matthew Renda
/Courthouse News Service
The congressional committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed four large Silicon Valley social media companies Thursday, saying the companies had failed to furnish requested items vital to the investigation. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2021, 2:21 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
An Arizona judge says that the state has collected more than enough material from tech giant Google and it’s time to move onto a trial over the company’s privacy policy - the result of an investigation by the Arizona attorney general that has been going on since at least 2018.... Read more»
Posted Nov 30, 2021, 12:41 pm
Craig Silverman & Isaac Arnsdorf/ProPublica
Almost a year ago, Google took a major step to ensure that its online ad network didn’t put money in the pocket of Steve Bannon, the indicted former adviser to Donald Trump - but Bannon found a loophole in Google’s policies that let him keep earning ad money on his site.... Read more»
Posted Sep 13, 2021, 10:35 am
Nicholas Iovino
/Courthouse News Service
In a major blow to Apple’s business model, a federal judge ruled Friday that the technology giant can no longer stop app developers from telling users how to sidestep its App Store and pay developers directly for subscriptions and other services. ... Read more»
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Posted Sep 8, 2021, 8:37 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Apple and Google hired a bevy of lobbyists in Arizona in early 2021 to kill legislation that would have slashed the profits the companies make through their app stores. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 30, 2021, 10:51 am
Jenni Bergal
/Kaiser Health News
After the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, many states issued emergency declarations allowing driver’s licenses to remain valid past expiration dates, but those extensions mostly have ended and scammers are exploiting the need to make sure licenses are renewed.... Read more»
Posted Jun 11, 2021, 9:01 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is running for U.S. Senate, joining a growing field that already includes that already includes Jim Lamon and Michael “Mick” McGuire, in what could be a contentious fight for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly next year. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2021, 2:35 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
An Arizona judge rejected a request from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for a partial judgment in an ongoing consumer fraud lawsuit against Google, ruling that the state did not have sufficient evidence and the case should move forward with jurors. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 5, 2020, 4:32 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Mark Kelly last week spent nearly 800% more on digital ads than Sen. Martha McSally, pumping nearly $1.2 million into advertising on Facebook and Google — more than half of which went to Facebook ads raising money from outside Arizona.... Read more»
Posted Jun 1, 2020, 1:46 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich claimed in a court filing that Google has violated Arizona's Consumer Fraud Act in the way it gathers location data, and he is asking the tech giant to pay millions of dollars in fines and restitution.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 10, 2020, 8:43 am
Hannah Foote
/Cronkite News
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The pace of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Arizona appear to be slowing as a result of social distancing, but experts still expect statewide hospitalizations will peak in April. State health officials urge the public to continue taking necessary precautions.... Read more»
Posted Mar 17, 2020, 11:20 am
Jessica McDonald
/FactCheck
President Donald Trump and other officials misleadingly suggested that tech behemoth Google was working on a screening website that large numbers of Americans could soon use to see if they should be tested for the new coronavirus. The website, however, is actually a project of Google’s sister company Verily and is initially limited to the San Francisco Bay Area.... Read more»
Posted Sep 26, 2019, 12:05 pm
Yeganeh Torbati
/ProPublica
Documents show that immigration officials have been told to vet refugees’ social media posts using Google Translate. Language experts caution even students against using the service.... Read more»
Posted Sep 16, 2019, 6:42 pm
Chelsea Hofmann
/Cronkite News
This year’s fires have gained enormous attention because of their number and size but have touched off a slew of misinformation.... Read more»