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☆ Google agrees to compliance reforms to prevent search warrant data loss
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Andrew KellyWASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google resolving a dispute with the search engine giant over the loss of data responsive to a 2016 search warrant. The government said it was a "first-of-its-kind resolution" that would result in Google reforming "its legal process compliance program to ensure timely and complete responses to legal process such as subpoenas and search warrants." The company told a U.S. court it had spent over $90 million "on additional resources, systems, and staffing to implement legal process compliance program improvements." The Justice Department said an independent compliance professional will be hired to serve as an outside third party related to Google’s compliance upgrades. Google will assemble reports and updates regarding the compliance program that will go to the government, the Google Compliance Steering Committee and Alphabet board committees.

☆ Google Agrees to Compliance Reforms in DOJ Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Richard Vanderford | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to improve its compliance program in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, which said the search giant lost data federal investigators sought in connection with a probe into a cryptocurrency exchange. The DOJ said Tuesday that a third-party independent compliance professional will monitor whether Google holds up its end of the deal. Under the agreement, Google will be required to reform and upgrade the compliance program that handles responses to legal demands such as subpoenas and search warrants. Prosecutors obtained a warrant in 2016 for the data Google held, but Google and the DOJ litigated over the warrant through 2017 and 2018, the DOJ said. Google also created tools so the data wouldn’t be backed up stateside as the dispute unfolded, the DOJ said.

☆ U.S. strikes deal with Google over search warrant data loss
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Andrew KellyWASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it reached an agreement with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google resolving a dispute with the search engine giant over the loss of data responsive to a 2016 search warrant. The government said it was a "first-of-its-kind resolution" that would result in Google reforming "its legal process compliance program to ensure timely and complete responses to legal process such as subpoenas and search warrants." Google, which did not immediately comment, told a U.S. court it had spent over $90 million "on additional resources, systems, and staffing to implement legal process compliance program improvements." In 2016, the United States obtained a search warrant in California for data held at Google related to the investigation of the criminal cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, the department said. Google will assemble reports and updates regarding the compliance program that will go to the government, the Google Compliance Steering Committee and Alphabet board committees.

☆ Working at SNL as an NBC page was chaotic but super fun. Here's what the notoriously competitive interview process was like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-09 | by ( Dorothy Cucci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Michelle Tokunaga had no idea what an NBC page was before she applied for the job in New York City. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michelle Tokunaga, a former NBC page who now works for Comcast in New York City. I had no idea what the NBC Page Program was or what a page even did when I applied to the prestigious 12-month fellowship. After a few more weeks of waiting, I got an email saying I'd gotten into the page program in October. They're trusting you to work SNL or The Tonight show — you have to be able to think on your feet under pressure.

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