Despite these proposed changes, the EU antitrust case isn’t over. The European Commission is now seeking feedback on Google's cosmetic search result changes that aim to settle a years-long antitrust investigation.
Google reportedly has reached a deal with European Union (EU) regulators regarding its so-called anticompetitive search practices. While tweaking its search engine results may put an end to the EU's investigation into Google's search practices...
Google Notifying Searchers In EU That They Use Cookies – Search Engine LandUsers now seeing a message that "Cookies help us deliver our services. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
Google has submitted proposals to address European Union (EU) concerns that the company, which owns a dominating 90 percent of the search market in Europe, is guilty of discriminating against rivals, Bloomberg reported.
Authorities called on the company to come forward and explain its actions in collecting Wi-Fi data during its maps surveying trips across the EU. Google has reached a settlement which would end the firm's long-running data harvesting case in the U.S.
However, you might be surprised how lame it looks to go from $99 (U.S.to €73.65 (EU) to 4,187 Rubles (Russia) to your foreign audience if you’re just using dollar to foreign currency exchanges. Don’t even bring it up around me unless you're...
Although Google escaped relatively unscathed from a U.S.antitrust investigation into its business practices by the FTC, Europe may bring a less favorable result for the dominant search engine, based on comments by the EU competition commissioner.
Changing of Google Privacy Policy from US to EU. So now what? Those who follow me, read me, or conference with me, already know what these five letters mean, but just in case let’s review the NSTIC, what it means and then where we are now.
Governments and solution providers, especially in the EU, have come to terms with what it means to be compliant and are working on very creative solutions that should provide a nice compromise for 2013.
We are also in touch with other data protection authorities in the EU and elsewhere through the Article 29 Working Party and the GPEN network to coordinate the response to this development. Google has admitted it has discovered more WiFi data...
European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said on Tuesday that EU regulators had reached "a good degree of understanding between Google and the Commission," according to the Wall Street Journal
This breach just goes to show that even big companies aren’t taking enough steps to protect critical data, and in the UK it’s an obligation under the ICO and EU Data Privacy directive to do so," Bower said.
How it's interpreted and has been written into law varies by EU country. This was the date on which the EU Privacy Directive, which had become UK law the previous year, started to be enforced by the UK regulator, the ICO.
We are pleased that the EU is working with Google to develop a set of voluntary solutions to the search engine's problematic practices, including those that we identified at our September 2011 hearing," they said.
Antitrust authorities in both the U.S.and the EU have expressed concern over the company's dominance of the search and advertising businesses. Google has disclosed a pair of ongoing international government probes into its business practices.
The CNIL and the EU data protection authorities are deeply concerned about the combination of personal data across services: they have strong doubts about the lawfulness and fairness of such proceedings.
Woodside has been overseeing the $12.5 billion merger, which recently was cleared in the U.S.and EU.via Bloomberg) Google will reportedly promote one of its own executives to CEO of Motorola. Meanwhile, Google has hired a veteran lobbyist and lost...
U.S.and EU antitrust authorities have approved Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. In a pair of announcements made just hours apart, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the European Commission (EC) each announced that the deal...
Meanwhile, the EU asked Google to hold off on implementing the policy, though Google wasn’t receptive to that idea. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google...
At no stage did any EU regulator suggest that any sort of pause would be appropriate. In a lengthy response to EU regulators who had asked Google to hold off on implementing the new policy, they make clear the policy will take effect March 1, as...
