Google reportedly has reached a deal with European Union (EU) regulators regarding its so-called anticompetitive search practices. The European Commission (EC) has been investigating Google's alleged "anticompetitive" internet search service since...
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.
In an interview with the New York Times, European Union’s antitrust chief, Joaquín Almunia, noted one solution to deal with this issue could be "labeling" – or something that clearly distinguishes when Google is promoting its own services...
Foundem, a comparison search website that helped initiate a large-scale European Union anti-trust investigation against Google, has filed a lawsuit against Google, according to court papers filed in October and released this week, Bloomberg reported.
Google has slammed an upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), set for Dec.in Dubai, which the company says will give governments the chance to set new regulations without input from citizens and user advocacy groups.
A recent study conducted across the European Union found that only 18 percent of users said they would make online purchases from a site that was not in their own native language. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing...
A recent study conducted across the European Union found that more than half of Internet users visited foreign language (usually meaning English) websites. English remains the single most widely used language online.
Katz is in the spotlight for authoring a rather weak anti-Google rant, “Google’s Monopoly and Internet Freedom”, using the Wall Street Journal as his platform as we get closer to the July 2 deadline the European Union has set for Google to adjust...
So it is with trepidation, lest I reveal too much of my own warped mind, that I recount this romantic journey of laughter, reflection, sorrow and rejection with my robot fantasy girl who turned out to be an undercover agent for network called the...
In response to complaints from the European Union, Google now allows any router to be opted out of the location-based tracking of access point. The router can be opted out by changing the SSID to end in "_nomap.
Additionally, Google has been upbraided in the European Union, where its search share is even higher, for alleged privacy oversteps including via its Street View mapping technology. Zachary Rodgers wrote Inside Google's Debate Over Search Retargeting
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). Directive 95/46/EG, a European privacy law?
Google is no stranger to antitrust scrutiny, but this year Google’s search dominance has been the subject of investigations in the European Union. Google officially became a teenager today. The search engine that became synonymous with search and...
The long worked on facial recognition technology recently released by Facebook is coming under attack from European Union regulators questioning its intrusion in to users' privacy. Facebook gave information to the EU shortly after the investigation...
Under European Union regulations, service providers are exempt from liability if their networks cache or transmit illegal or infringing content, but those organizations do have a duty to act to remove it.
Ohio and Wisconsin are reportedly considering their own antitrust probes, while Google is already facing investigations from Texas and the European Union. Google could face a major U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the...
The Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is assigned every year by the European Geosciences Union (www.egu.eu) to scientists who provided significant advance in the fields of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology," as Wikipedia notes.
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. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 13 to 19, as...
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. It may not be specific to the European based sites though.
Instead, the United States has the DCMA which protects it and it now passes to the European Union's Court of Justice to consider how any older information. A French court fined Google 430,000 Euros for four breaches of copyright, while the Spanish...
