Early bird: Google deletes billions of files. Erdogan suffered the biggest electoral defeat
As a result of the court ruling, the world's most used browser will have to delete billions of data files due to user privacy. In municipal elections in Turkey, the party of the current President Erdogan suffered a defeat. Iran blamed Israel for the explosion at the Iranian embassy in Syria, if suspicions were confirmed, peace between the countries could be severely disrupted. The American lottery will be drawing for a jackpot worth a billion dollars.
Internet browser will delete its databases
Google has agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly monitored people's internet use who thought they were browsing privately. The settlement terms were submitted to a federal court in Oakland, California on Monday and require the approval of U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
The internet company could pay up to $7.8 billion in damages. Google pays no compensation, but users can sue the company individually for damages. The class action lawsuit was launched in 2020 and involves millions of Google users who have used private browsing since June 1, 2016, the news agency Reuters. wrote about the case.
Turkish opposition recorded significant success at the expense of Erdogan's party
During the weekend municipal elections in Turkey, the major opposition People's Republican Party achieved significant success. They not only won the election in the capital city of Istanbul, where the current city mayor Ekrem Imanoglu defended his victory from the previous elections, but also in Ankara and other regions. President Erdogan had been hoping to "reconquer" the capital.
Imanoglu is considered the biggest rival of autocratic President Erdogan and could also become his challenger in the next presidential elections. The opposition party gained a dominant position in 35 out of 81 provinces, while the Conservative Islamic Justice and Development Party only achieved victory in 24 provinces, ČTK reported.
Iran Accuses Israel of Bombing Embassy in Syria
The Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus, was leveled on Monday in an attack that Syrian and Iranian media have called an Israeli air strike, marking an apparent escalation of conflict in the Middle East that would pit Israel against Iran and its allies.
A Lebanese security source in an interview with Reuters agency said one of the dead was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Iranian state television reported that several Iranian diplomats were killed. Representatives of the Iranian government immediately arrived at the scene.
Lottery in the USA Reached a Record Jackpot
The one billion dollar jackpot in the Powerball lottery will be tempting players on Monday evening, who think they could fabulously enrich after three months without a big winner. The astronomical sum of one billion dollars, reached the jackpot for the fifth time in the history of the lottery competition, representatives of the game stated in the press release.
Since the New Year, nobody has won the Powerball jackpot, which is 38 draws in a row when nobody guessed the six numbers of the game. If no one wins the jackpot on Monday or Wednesday evening, the game will equal the record number of 41 consecutive draws on Saturday night, said AP agency.
Sources: reuters.com, apnews.com, ČTK
