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ICYMI — Big tech is in hot water! The US Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking a major court order, Google gets branded as a monopoly by a US judge, and Elon Musk faces legal trouble in Ireland for using Europeans' data without consent. Catch up on the biggest tech news stories you might have missed this week, and get the details on what’s happening behind the headlines.

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00:00The U.S. Justice Department sues TikTok, Musk is being taken to court in Ireland, and Google

00:04is branded a monopoly.

00:05Here are the top tech news stories that you need to know about, in case you missed it.

00:09In 2019, TikTok agreed to U.S. court order to not collect personal info from its young

00:13users without parents' consent, and apparently they almost immediately breached that order.

00:18It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

00:19Let's see if it pays off for them.

00:21They say, as of 2020, TikTok banned under 13 users from signing up, but allowed them

00:26to change their birthday to bypass restrictions.

00:29Users allegedly only spent five to seven seconds checking for age violations.

00:32TikTok said that millions of accounts flagged as potentially underage were allegedly not

00:36removed due to a bug in TikTok's tools.

00:39Google is back in the headlines this week as a U.S. judge has ruled that Google violated

00:43antitrust laws.

00:45In 2021 alone, Google paid $26.3 billion to ensure that its search engine is the default

00:51on smartphones and browsers.

00:52Default.

00:53That is some prime real estate.

00:55Nice move.

00:57Google controls about 90% of the online search market and 95% on smartphones.

01:02The published court document states, Google's distribution agreements are exclusive and

01:06of anti-competitive effects, and Google has not offered valid pro-competitive justifications

01:11for those agreements.

01:12Importantly, the court also finds that Google has exercised its monopoly powers by changing

01:17supra-competitive prices for general search text ads.

01:20That conduct has allowed Google to earn monopoly profits.

01:23So, in layman's terms, they were basically charging absurd prices for competitors to show

01:28up in ads.

01:29Or, as the judge put it, Google is a monopolist.

01:31And it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.

01:34And finally, Elon Musk is in the spotlight.

01:36Again.

01:37I mean, for more reasons than one, but for now, we'll focus on his upcoming court case

01:41in Ireland.

01:42He's being taken to court for using Europeans' data to train AI models.

01:45Musk decided last month to process user data to train its Grok AI model without notifying

01:50or asking people if they're okay with that.

01:51At least they didn't ask me about the date personally.

01:53And GDPR requires any processing of people's data to have a valid legal basis.

01:58Breaches can result in penalties of up to 4% of global annual turnover.

02:02The injunction proceedings will return before the high court next week.

02:06That's it for this week, and see you next time.

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