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  1. Google Reports Surge in Government Takedown Requests

    Brazil and the U.S.led the world for total requests for takedowns through a court order. In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticising government officials or their associates.

  2. FTC: Google Demoting Rankings of Competing Vertical Websites is Justifiable

    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...

  3. As Goes Paid Search, So Goes the Election?

    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).

  4. Vitaly Borker Gets 4 Years for Threats, Terror Used to Boost Google Rankings

    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.

  5. Failure to Comply: Judge Orders Google to Reveal Paid Media Relationships

    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...

  6. Google: We Didn't Mess With Texas Attorney General

    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 court order to get Google to turn over documentation not subject to attorney-client...

  7. Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests

    In some cases, they must consider local laws and may be facing down a court order, even if complying seems like participating in censorship. In the United States, Google received a court order to remove 218 search results that linked to allegedly...

  8. Facebook Settles Privacy Lawsuit, Buys Facial Recognition Company Face.com

    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...

  9. Google Search Results Alert Users of DNSChanger Trojan Infection

    But those servers are set to be turned off imminently – the court order 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...

  10. YouTube-Viacom Copyright Lawsuit Resurrected by Appeals Court Ruling

    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...

  11. Google Reviews Japanese Court Order Demanding Removal of Autocomplete Terms

    Google is reviewing the court order, 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.