Google sued for scraping data in AI expansion bid; company veteran quits

In a proposed class action lawsuit, Alphabet’s Google was accused of allegedly misusing vast amounts of personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems, a report by Reuters said.

According to the report, the complaint was filed in San Francisco federal court by eight individuals seeking to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders said Google’s unauthorised scraping of data from websites violated their privacy and property rights.

Google employee since ‘99 quits

One of Google’s earliest employees will step back from an executive management role, having held a senior position at the company’s cloud unit.