The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the Article 29 group of which the ICO is a member.The ICO also confirmed that several other data protection authorities in Europe are also...
Some European companies have already raised concerns about Facebook’s autotagging practice, citing concerns over user privacy. The proposed class-action lawsuit accused Facebook of violating California law by featuring user “Likes” as Sponsored...
The issue is particularly interesting from a UK and European perspective as it comes weeks before the so-called Cookie Law comes in to force in May, which will force firms to obtain the consent of users before deploying cookies on browsers.
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission (EC) over what it sees as a clear abuse of its industry standard patents, with Google's tacit backing. Not surprisingly, the European Commission does not seem to...
Facebook under European privacy law. The same Australian who blew the whistle on Facebook tracking logged out users last week discovered yesterday that although Facebook had “fixed” the problem, the tracking cookie has been re-enabled.
Directive 95/46/EG, a European privacy law? Residents of the European Union can fill out the online form on Facebook’s website (this is not the Account Settings form, but a request for the full file).
The European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance, Google is providing an WiFi location opt-out service; Google has announced that it will delete 3.6 million Dutch WiFi SSIDs, and Google Analytics has been un-banned in...
European Union justice chief Viviane Reding, says sites like Google and Facebook must abide by data privacy rules or else they will face court action. The Challenges Facing David Cameron's Quest To Overhaul UK Copyright Law - paidContent
However, just recently, Google won similar cases for European Trademark Laws, Buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law, a court has ruled, overturning a lawsuit over AdWords and adCenter ads displaying trademarked names.
We're pleased that the [Spanish] court is considering asking guidance from Europe's top court on whether Spain's [data-protection agency] has overridden European law. A French court fined Google 430,000 Euros for four breaches of copyright, while...
There is a lot of money being spent by European governments investigating Google right now. Italy has just closed their investigation but the European Union is doing a wide spread inquiry with a 120 question survey out to various industries and...
In the European Union, Google is facing increasing antitrust scrutiny from regulators over its search practices -- with the possibility that Google will have to give the EU access to its algorithm. Edelman no doubt will be cheering on the European...
European Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Is Broadened - The New York Times The Venezuelan Vice President Elías Jaua has asked his country's government to pass a law that would allow regulation of the internet and create one central access point for...
Google To Gain Access To Over 1.5 Million European Patent Documents - Search Engine Land Has Google abused its dominant position in search in the European Union? Google Self-Driving Car Driver Breaks Law - Jalopnik
The change, effective from Sept.follows a ruling by the European Union's highest court in March that Google doesn't breach EU law by selling trademark-protected names as keywords, Bloomberg reported. Seems the success in more advertising using...
The company further commented in a statement that it is "very confident" its "business operates in the interests of both users and partners, as well as within European competition law. Bloomberg quoted Matthew Readings, a London partner at law firm...
Speaking on the complaint, a spokesperson for the Autorité de la concurrence said that the final decision would be rendered in "10 to 12 months," but as stipulated by the interim ruling, in the meantime, Google Inc and Google Ireland (its European...
Italy's European Member of Parliament, Tiziano Motti, is the author of the proposal, commonly known as Written Declaration 29, adopted last week. He said in a blog post that "many Members of the European Parliament have been misled into signing the...
First, the French see themselves as "French" first -- and then European. This is what makes "about us" pages critical -- especially because in many European markets "about us" page views are significant.
The Google Book deal, made in the U.S.got more European countries on the barricades, but the Germans seemed most active in the battle against Google digitizing their books. Zeit Online reported that German federal and state government officials are...
