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In what can only be termed an unusual turn of events, Google has paid damages to the US Government in order to try and avoid a jury trial in an anti-trust lawsuit over its digital advertising business.

The judge presiding over an anti-trust case against Google, brought by the US Department of Justice and state attorneys, is debating whether he should sanction the search behemoth over what the DoJ has termed "routine, regular, and normal destruction" of evidence.

GUEST OPINION:  One of the residual effects of a hyper-connected digital world is that everything is (necessarily) online. This makes trade secrets all the easier to steal, and Intellectual Property (IP) Theft is rampant. This year, Washington decided to crack down.

US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday.

A British journalist who has, in the past, blown the whistle on WikiLeaks' own ethical lapses, claims the US Department of Justice and the FBI are leaning on his fellow scribes to back the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

Two Chinese citizens have been charged with trying to bribe an American law-enforcement official to allegedly obtain inside information about the government's case against telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

Ericsson in disclosing its first quarter results for 2022 could not estimate the impact of what actions the US Department of Justice (DOJ) might take when assessing the breach notices the DOJ issued relating to the Deferred Prosecution Agreement.

The US Department of Justice has accused Google of making "excessive and intentional efforts" to misuse its attorney-client privilege and hide business documents relevant to an anti-trust suit filed against the search firm in October 2020.

Efforts by US law enforcement agencies to gain access to email stored overseas by American companies have been resolved through a piece of legislation tagged onto a massive spending bill which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump.

A man from the city of North Royalton in Ohio has been charged with allegedly creating and installing malware on thousands of Apple computers for more than 13 years.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the government against the verdict in a case where Microsoft had obtained a ruling allowing it to prevent the government accessing emails stored on a server in Ireland.

A magistrate judge in the US has ordered Google to hand over customers' mail messages it has stored abroad, arguing that since the company has access to them in the US they are subject to federal search warrants.

Two members of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and two Russian hackers have been named in an indictment issued by the US Justice Department in connection with one of the Yahoo! email hacks which were announced last year.

The completion of Novell's sale to Attachmate has been delayed until April 12, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.