Ken Paxton

Photo: The Monitor (AP)Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state is suing Google for allegedly collecting biometric data from millions of Texans without consent, his office said in a press release Thursday. The case is part of a recent flood of lawsuits against tech companies over biometrics, which measure physical characteristics like faces and fingerprints. But this new lawsuit makes an unusual and potentially gamechanging argument: Paxton alleges Google violated the privacy of people who aren’t even Google…

Image: FoxIt turns out even Google’s own workforce isn’t sold on the company’s claims around Incognito mode’s privacy protections.Employees reportedly cracked jokes about the feature’s inept, and potentially misleading privacy protections in recent years, with one marketing officer reportedly directly emailing CEO Sundar Pichai, basically begging him to make the product actually live up to its name according to recent court documents viewed by Bloomberg. Those jokes and internal criticism comes amid multiple lawsuits…

One America News had been dropped from both Verizon and DirecTV, but it’s looking to make a push back into the limelight through streaming deals and so-called “subchannels.”Photo: Koshiro K (Shutterstock)One America News, responsible for the some of basest pro-Donald Trump bile available anywhere, reportedly has a plan to once again help its voice crawl its way into the hearts and minds of folks all across the country. Though it’s promoting new streaming deals, the outlet once beloved by Trump has bigger plans leak its…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served a subpoena Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by groups seeking to help Texans receive out-of-state abortions, court filings show.Paxton ran from the garage of his home in McKinney, Texas, into a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, while refusing to accept the documents from a process server, according to an affidavit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Austin.The Paxtons drove away without taking the documents, which were left on the…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton often uses his office like a battering ram and bullhorn, decrying the excesses of big tech while rarely doing much individually to rein in industry excesses.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)The Lone Star State is indeed going atit alone against big tech, or at least that’s how it seems by the piles of threadbare allegations, lawsuits, and investigations against the likes of Google, Facebook, and GoFundMe, just to name a few.It’s more than fair to be hard on big tech companies, but…

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Juul’s 2022 just went from bad to worse. The e-cigarette maker somehow managed to narrowly survive (at least for now) a Federal Drug Administration effort to ban its products nationwide only to get smacked with a settlement worth nearly half a billion this week.On Tuesday, the company agreed to cough up $439 million to put to rest a two-year-old investigation led by 33 states and Puerto Rico seeking to determine whether the vaping giant markets its products to children and teens. In…

A video recording of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plays during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention on May 27, 2022 in Houston, Texas. The annual event came days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and 2 adults dead.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)A legal watchdog group has filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, and its embattled attorney general, Ken Paxton, of trying to conceal records of any discussions their offices may have had with gun advocacy…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)While Google’s multiple antitrust cases continue to drag on here in the U.S., it looks like the search giant’s starting to make a few concessions across the pond. Reuters reports that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has made an offer to European Union regulators in response to an ongoing investigation into the tech giants’ adtech business: Don’t fine us, and we’ll let other companies place their ads on YouTube. Alphabet has reportedly offered to allow its rival advertising technology…

The dog has caught the car: After weeks of Elon Musk’s whinging about bots, Twitter is going to give him all the data he can handle, according to The Washington Post.The social network’s board is planning to grant Musk access to its “firehose” real-time stream of tweets and accompanying metadata about them that the site manages as early as next week, according to an anonymous source that spoke to the Post. The news is something of a reversal of the board’s previous stance denying Musk’s request for data. Twitter CEO Parag…

Ken Paxton apparently loves the taste of billionaire boots. The Attorney General seems to want his new-ish constituent, Elon Musk, to like him so bad, he’ll use all the legal resources of Texas to gain favor.Today, Paxton announced a state investigation into Twitter for “potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts.” The announcement came mere hours after Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, declared that Twitter had breached his buyout deal because of bots. The richest man in the world has been in tumultuous…