Top Google Lawyer Preps for Fights Over AI and Tech Censorship

Google’s general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, was with friends in the suburbs of Boston for some rare personal time when she learned that the US Supreme Court had reached a decision in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, the case that had dominated her life for a year. DeLaine Prado didn’t mind scrambling to respond from the road, given that the 9-0 ruling was largely what she’d been hoping for. “If it’s a day off, and you get a Supreme Court unanimous decision, I’m gonna happily offer up my vacation day,” she says.

The case—actually two separate lawsuits in which ...