Arizona’s AG: Google will pay $85M to resolve the state’s consumer privacy lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously collects users’ location data for targeted ads (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump’s lawyer says a lawsuit against Twitter over banning his account is ongoing and Trump does not plan to withdraw the appeal, complicating his return  —  Elon Musk has tweeted that Donald Trump will be reinstated on Twitter, but the former president isn’t backing down in his legal fight …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
NY judge rules the bulk of the state AGs’ ad tech antitrust suit against Google can proceed, but dismissed the claim Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue  —  An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
New York and the DOJ urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit brought by 48 state AGs that alleged Meta schemed to “buy or bury” its rivals  —  New York and the Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit that dozens …

Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Alphabet’s Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January  —  Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users’ friends’ data  —  It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up… The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep …

Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk:
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap  —  The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user’s IP address and wallet address information would also be collected.