From the Cloud to the courts, Big Tech is facing many legal challenges – many of them employment-law related. Anthony Fay dusts off his spinning jenny
It has been a turbulent first half of 2025 in the tech sector – from fines imposed by the EU Commission and the Irish Data Protection Commission, to allegations of cyber-attacks by hostile actors targeting Ireland, and the EU’s threat to introduce a digital-services tax in the event of escalating trade tensions with the United States.
Adding to the drama, in May, the High Court granted the Irish Council for Civil Liberties permission to initiate a landmark class action against Microsoft over alleged data breaches affecting Irish consumers.
Across the pond, a US federal judge ruled in April that Google held a monopoly in online advertising technology.
Meanwhile, Meta finds itself in the dock, facing a pivotal antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington.
The charges, once again, centre on allegations of anti-competitive conduct and claims that the social-media giant has created a “social networking monopoly” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
The trial has now concluded, with written submissions to be made to the presiding judge before a decision is handed down.
Yet for many tech employees, the more immediate concern is the continuing wave of layoffs reshaping their industry.
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