Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: PX14A6G
Source: 0001214659-25-006690
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: PX14A6G
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 file in the future, several antitrust
lawsuits about various aspects of our business, including our advertising technologies and practices[...] Furthermore, in December 2020,
several State Attorneys General, led by the Texas Attorney General, filed an antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas alleging that Google violated antitrust and other laws relating to its advertising technology. This case is set for
trial in March 2025, and we could face significant civil penalties. In January 2023, the DOJ and several Attorneys General sued in the
Eastern District of Virginia alleging similar antitrust violations relating to Google’s advertising technology. Trial in the DOJ
matter concluded in September 2024 with a decision expected in early 2025. If we are unsuccessful, we could face an order on remedies
that could harm our business, reputation, financial condition, and operating results. In addition to these regulatory proceedings, private
individual and collective actions that overlap with claims pursued by regulators are pending in the U.S. and in several other jurisdictions.”

In April 2025, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Alphabet alleging
Google violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Federal Wiretap Act, and the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
The lawsuit alleges that Google “doesn’t disclose that it embeds hidden tracking technology in its Chrome browser that creates
a child’s unique digital “fingerprint,” the plaintiffs said. The fingerprint allows Google to “to track a child
even when she or her school administrator has disabled cookies or is using technologies designed to block third-party cookies” where
“Google allegedly uses that data to fuel its own commercial products and sells it to third parties including other education technology
companies.”

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