Brazil and the U.S.led the world for total requests for takedowns through a courtorder. In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticising government officials or their associates.
Previously, the firm required a courtorder to allow friends and family of the departed to access a departed user's data. Google has introduced the Inactivity Account Manager to let users opt to delete their data upon their death.
Another 19 percent came following a courtorder. More than 60 percent of U.S.requests came following a subpoena order. Twitter's transparency report shows that governmental requests for data have grown over the course of 2012.
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...
In August, barackobama.com was bidding on expected keywords such as “obama” (where they were spending the most of their budget), but also were bidding on “obamacare”, “immigration reform”, “the white house”, “democratic party”, and “scotusblog...
Meanwhile, mittromney.com’s leading keyword terms (based on impressions) included the names of the candidates who failed to win the GOP nomination, along with Romney, Ryan and institutional names (GOP, Supreme Court, the republic).
Long-tailed traffic adds up and as an affiliate, you need to actively court it. You don't need to rank for brand terms in order to capture brand traffic. There's no giant group of affiliates trying to drive altruistic traffic to a site that seeks...
Dozens of articles oversimplify, and so deflate, the effort required to manage content properly – and doing it wrong can cost you more than time and money, repelling the exact users you’ve set out to court.
At his sentencing last week, Borker sobbed openly in court, saying “I had a big mouth and I couldn’t control it. Borker had her address from the online order and even went so far as to tell her in an email (as an alias, Mr.
District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may...
The tribulation started two years ago as an antitrust lawsuit but has since expanded into an investigation that sees Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott seeking a courtorder to get Google to turn over documentation not subject to attorney-client...
In some cases, they must consider local laws and may be facing down a courtorder, even if complying seems like participating in censorship. In the United States, Google received a courtorder to remove 218 search results that linked to allegedly...
Five Facebook members brought the case forward, though nearly one in three U.S.citizens could have joined in, said related court documents. EPIC claimed that "users could not reasonably have known that Facebook would use their photos to build a...
We leave the ball in your court. We’ve gathered these four search engines in order to test the top four searches pulled from Google Trends beginning in April: Since I have a known allergy to all Apple devices, my colleague Aaron Farr from the...
But those servers are set to be turned off imminently – the courtorder keeping the servers whirring runs out July 9. Google is embarking on an awareness-raising program that will see it notify roughly half a million users that they may be on the...
Today, the court heard video testimony from Google CEO Larry Page (recap via CNET) and in-person testimony Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (recap via CNET). Oracle will prove at trial that Google deliberately chose to base its Android software platform on...
We conclude that the District Court correctly held that the safe harbor requires knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity, but we vacate the order granting summary judgment because a reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual...
Where an individual has obtained a clear courtorder that certain material infringes their privacy and so should not be published we do not find it acceptable that he or she should have to return to court repeatedly in order to remove the same...
Google is reviewing the courtorder, which would force Google's operations based in U.S.to obey the Japanese court of law. Google must know this would never fly in an American court, and to comply with the order would set a dangerous precedent.
And Joseph Kony was indicted for war crimes in 2005 by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, but has evaded capture. Conventional wisdom says that videos need to be short and funny in order to go viral.