In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights. In April, a Japanese court fined Google $3,100 for autocomplete suggestions that reportedly linked an innocent...
Google Video trial to continue to Italian supreme court – PCWorldProsecutor claims three Google execs should be held accountable for a posted video that showed a handicapped student being bullied. Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German...
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for the uncensored results shown in its autocomplete feature that linked an innocent man to crime, AFP reported. A Japanese man.who remains anonymous, complained to the Tokyo District Court after he...
The mapping alternative has had enough of this and, according to reports, has got some lawyers on the case and alerted the high court over its fear that Google is giving its Maps preferential treatment.
But a three-judge appeals court panel said Google's alleged improper use of Stayart's name fell within the "public interest" and "incidental use" exceptions to Wisconsin's misappropriation laws, either of which would doom the lawsuit.
Australia’s High Court ruled that Google didn’t engage in misleading or deceptive conduct because Google didn’t create the ads. The Australian High Court’s ruling overturns a Federal Court ruling from last April, which found Google guilty of...
In 2012, Apple unveiled its new iPhone with strong sales, saw its iPad dominate the tablet market, and won major court battles against its patent rivals. Specific intentions behind customer support, as in the case of resolving verification issues...
As a result, the FTC announced that “Google has agreed to a Consent Order that prohibits it from seeking injunctions against a willing licensee, either in federal court or at the ITC, to block the use of any standard-essential patents that the...
If Google can't allay antitrust concerns, the FTC can file a lawsuit and head to court for several years. Earlier this week we reported that the case may be dropped because the FTC couldn't find consumer harm.
Nonetheless, what is particularly unnerving, is that the darker side of this phenomenon has rallied the mob around very vulnerable people too, in which opinions they have expressed online and not necessarily in their right mind (in previous...
In another case, an Argentina court ruled Google must censor anti-Semitic search results. This time, Germany’s former First Lady, Bettina Wulff, is taking the search giant to court. BBC reported that Bing also shows defamatory autosuggest results...
At his sentencing last week, Borker sobbed openly in court, saying “I had a big mouth and I couldn’t control it. In Rodriguez’s case, it meant harassing phone calls and threats of sexual assault. In one case, he and two other defendants were...
The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may have retained or paid print or internet authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have and/or may publish comments on the issues in this case," Alsup's order read.
In a court filing, originally posted by Wired, the search giant asked that Oracle pay costs including printing and copy fees, compensation for expert appointments and filing fees for both printed and electronic excerpts over the course of the case.
Because he is a public figure, the chance of his winning a U.S.court case over a picture he doesn’t like is worse than zero - ever read TMZ? Any court case arguing that Google must not add to the search engine stories which mention the untrue...
In February 2011, Abbott demanded that Google turn over documents for the case, and the court order he requested this week relates to these same documents. The tribulation started two years ago as an antitrust lawsuit but has since expanded into an...
But the court rejected Oracle's other claims, most notably whether Google had copied 37 of Java's application programming interfaces. Aside from the matter of that appeal, the only outstanding issue in the current case is whether Google will make...
In some cases, they must consider local laws and may be facing down a court order, even if complying seems like participating in censorship. Over the weekend, data was released for the period of July to December 2011, showing a total of 467 court...
Five Facebook members brought the case forward, though nearly one in three U.S.citizens could have joined in, said related court documents. Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit over Sponsored Stories.
