Google has two lawsuits going attempting to stop scammers from hurting small businesses and others
Prado added, “Keeping you safe online is core to our business. Every day, Gmail blocks over 100 million phishing attempts, Safe Browsing protects over 5 billion devices, and Google Play scans over 100 billion apps. For the latest scams, lawsuits are an effective tool for establishing a legal precedent, disrupting the tools used by scammers, and raising the consequences for bad actors. And over the years, we’ve proactively pursued litigation to stop scammers who exploit the vulnerable, trick small businesses, and attempt to extort our users.”
A second lawsuit mentioned in the blog post is related to “bad actors,” as Google calls them, using fake copyright takedowns to harm competitors. This was done by abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which protects copyright holders while still allowing innovation online. The bad actors’ fake copyright claims resulted in the takedown of more than 100,000 business websites “costing them millions of dollars and thousands of hours in lost employee time.”
