Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges that Google violated other state and federal laws by requiring apps distributed on Google Play to use Google Play’s billing system for in-app purchases and refusing to distribute apps on Google Play that use their own billing system.

The number of Justice Department and other police requests has soared in recent years to thousands a week, putting Apple and other tech giants like Google and Microsoft in an uncomfortable position between law enforcement, the courts and the customers whose privacy they have promised to protect.

The U. S. Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources during the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Joe Biden, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. While the Trump administration never informed the Times about the effort, the Biden administration continued waging the fight this year, telling a handful of top Times executives about it but imposing a gag order to shield it from public view, said the lawyer, David McCraw, who called the move unprecedented. The gag order prevented the executives from disclosing the government’s efforts to seize the records even to the executive editor, Dean Baquet, and other newsroom leaders.

Historic decision follows years of debate and study, and promises to add housing, jobs and parks near Diridon Station.

The bill, SB 7, will take effect immediately, as it was approved as a so-called emergency statute.

The suit alleges that Google’s promise to “never sell any personal information to third parties” is untrue.

San Jose Planning Commissioner Justin Lardinois says Google's community benefits package shouldn’t be considered unusual, but the standard.

The announcement set off a controversy that may change how the A.M. Turing Award honoree is vetted and chosen in the future.

Google’s generosity toward San Jose has appeased some critics but has not addressed all concerns over long-term housing affordability.

Seaver takes the helm at the regional chamber of commerce May 17, but first he sat down to talk about his priorities, economy and even Google.

Downtown San Jose’s iconic Poor House is moving, fleeing the path of development proposed in Google’s Downtown West project.

The Clubhouse app became a social media sensation by evolving the art of conversation. Will it end up an echo chamber?

The development agreement outlines what Google wants to build in San Jose and the $200 million community benefits package for the project.

Investors, who flocked to companies like Zoom as the virus spread, have started to look elsewhere.

While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, startups are still plumbing the industry’s ties to the military.

Last week Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it very much was not, disappeared from the platform in Australia. The company was demonstrating its opposition to a law now passed by the Australian Parliament that could require technology companies to compensate news organizations for their content.