Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with a coalition of 40 state AGs over charges it misled users into thinking they disabled location tracking (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Indiana’s AG sues TikTok for deceiving users about China’s access to data and for exposing kids to mature content, in the first US state lawsuits against TikTok  —  The lawsuits are the first by an American state against TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in a sign of mounting legal pressure.

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 …

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Filing: Vermont says Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky repeatedly misled investors about the lender’s finances and used its own CEL token to bolster its balance sheet  —  The crypto lender admitted in a recent creditor call that it could not earn enough revenue to support its yields, the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation said.

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
The SEC charges VMware with misleading investors by obscuring financial performance; VMware agrees to pay $8M to settle without denying or admitting charges  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday it has charged cloud computing company VMware Inc (VMW.N) …

Richard Vanderford / Wall Street Journal:
Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016  —  The tech company will be monitored by a compliance professional after the Justice Department said Google lost data sought in a U.S. investigation

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU could file antitrust charges against Google over its ad business in 2023 as regulators grow frustrated over slow settlement talks  —  Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, with EU regulators frustrated …