Some FANG Tech Giants Have Agreed to Settle Litigation Cases

Here are two just announced on Friday:
1. Invasion of Privacy by Google Street View for $13M
2. Age-Bias Claims for $11M

Both lawsuits were filed against Google and settled in California

1 Google Settles Privacy Case Over Street View for $13 Million

By Peter Blumberg     ‎July‎ ‎19‎, ‎2019‎ ‎4‎:‎57‎ ‎PM

Google agreed to pay $13 million to end long-running litigation over claims that it violated a U.S. wiretapping law when vehicles used for its Street View mapping project captured data from private Wi-Fi networks.

The settlement agreement filed Friday in San Francisco federalcalls for the money to be distributed to consumer privacy groups and requires the company to destroy all the collected data, as well as to educate people how to set up encrypted wireless networks, . .

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2 Google Settles Job Seekers’ Age-Bias Claims for $11 Million

By Robert Burnson   ‎July‎ ‎19‎, ‎2019‎ ‎4‎:‎48‎ ‎PM    

 

> Company vows to train employees, managers about discrimination

> Woman who sued interviewed for job with tech titan four times

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> Google agreed to pay $11 million to end a lawsuit accusing the internet giant of discriminating against older job applicants, a deal that amounts to an average payout of more than $35,000 for 227 people who joined the class action.

> The settlement also calls for the Alphabet Inc. unit to train employees and managers about age bias, to create a committee focused on age diversity in recruiting and to ensure that complaints are adequately investigated.

Lawyers for the company and attorneys representing the over-40 job seekers who sued submitted a final settlement proposal Friday to a federal judge in San Jose, California.

> Lawyers will collect about $2.75 million from the accord . . .