Saturday, November 10th, 2012
The company said it was not having any technical problems, but did not say whether it believed its sites had been blocked by the government or were the victims of hacking. Despite great fanfare, China’s Party Congress takes place under wraps. Reporters are not allowed in, and in the days preceding the event, the government
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Google has warned it would exclude French media sites from its search results if France adopts a law forcing search engines to pay for content, in the latest confrontation with European governments. A letter sent by Google...
Sunday, September 16th, 2012
The Internet company said it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia after blocking it on Wednesday in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors enraged over depiction of the Prophet Mohammad...
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Google has agreed to pay a record settlement over charges that it bypassed privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser in order to display targeted advertisements to users who thought they had blocked web tracking, the Federal Trade...
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Google is being sued over its plan, announced in 2004, to scan millions of books from public and university libraries to provide snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine. A Manhattan federal judge...
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
GOOGLE’s motto is “Do no evil”, but it certainly isn’t following that precept in France. Internet search giant Google has reached a deal under legal mediation with French anti-racism groups which objected to the search engine suggesting...
Friday, June 22nd, 2012
The allegations surfaced in a court filing earlier this week as part of Texas’ 2-year-old probe into Google’s business practices. Texas is among at least six states examining whether Google manipulates its Internet search engine’s influential recommendations...
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
The FTC is examining Google’s immensely powerful and lucrative search technology, which directs users to hundreds of millions of online and offline destinations every day. The case has the potential to be the biggest showdown between regulators...
Friday, February 24th, 2012
The White House has proposed ab online privacy “BILL OF RIGHTS” that could eventually give the government a greater power to police Internet firms. Coupled with the Administration’s proposal was an announcement by ad networks associated with...
Monday, February 20th, 2012
“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?” IE executive Dean Hachamovitch wrote in...
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