The US National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday charged Alphabet Inc.’s Google with violating the National Labor Relations Act by unlawfully surveilling, interrogating and firing activist employees. The board alleges that in 2019, Google virtually monitored employee activities and questioned them over accessing internal documents and employee calendars. The employees explained that they needed to access [...]

The Administrative Court of Stockholm on Monday rejected Google’s appeal against the decision of the Swedish data protection authority (Authority) and confirmed that Google has violated the provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Authority had imposed a fine of 75 million Swedish kronor (approximately 7 million euros) on Google in March [...]

The United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Thursday began a process for developing and issuing regulations governing the hardware and software used in self-driving cars. In issuing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on Automated Driving System (ADS) safety, the NHTSA indicated that even though wide-scale deployment of ADS-equipped vehicles [...]