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...
Google recently commissioned a top first amendment rights academic to make their case that they are a media outlet, much like the New York Times, and are therefore protected by freedom of speech law. However, the French judgment takes the onus off...
Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.that buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law. Under Australian law, the court could not levy a monetary fine against Google, though they ordered that the search giant pay the plaintiff’s...
Google is reviewing the court order, which would force Google's operations based in U.S.to obey the Japanese court of law. However, in January of this year, a French court ordered Google to pay a $65,000 fine and remove the word “escroc” (crook) as...
Mosley, with all due respect, is not looking for anything a court of law could order. In the most recent case, settled in a French court in November, he only walked away with £6000 despite asking for £180,000 in damages.
This includes $1 billion saved by allocating profits to a Bermuda-based law firm (where corporate income tax is non-existent), the use of the Google Ireland Holdings for licensing and intellectual properties, and the amount charged for licensing...
This is a biggie and I only reluctantly put it here as number three in order to hide it from the GEA (Google Law Enforcement Agency). I grew up with a family that had French accents on my father's side and Greek on my mother's side.
Google unfairly collected information under French law and received economic benefits from the data; and "Google has not refrained from using the data identifying Wi-Fi access points of individuals without their knowledge," according to France's...
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. Though freedom-of-expression provisions of Spanish law protect newspapers, legal...
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 all distribution of the internet.
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Yelp recently won a case against a dentist who tried who sued the site over a negative review, claiming defamation and "deceptive acts and practices" under New York state law. The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection again rejects Google's...
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...
And speaking of Google tweaking practices to abide the law, we're also awaiting to hear whether Google was granted renewal of its ICP licence in China. Google AdWords was found to abuse its dominant position on the French market and ordered to...
Something as ordinary and simple as a keyboard or an iPhone might be considered by many not to rank as a fundamental law. First, the French see themselves as "French" first -- and then European. In an effort to improve standards of performance in...
Privacy Roundup: Google Street View, French Law, and Congressional Hearings Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 22, 2009 Privacy concerns are ever-present, but the past week has generated significant buzz on the matter.
French politicians are concerned about these third parties gaining access to private information. Privacy concerns are ever-present, but the past week has generated significant buzz on the matter. First up, Google has been asked by a the European...
The following list is the top 10 searches during the week of March 21, 2009: family guy transformers cartoon lie to me the office keeping up with the kardashians 24 battlestar galactica bones damages the simpsons In the top 100, Hitwise says 83...
Law.com launches vertical search engineLaw.com Quest is a search engine focused on the searching of legal documents. Skooiz unveils study on behaviour and attitude of French Canadians when searching on the web, Skooiz Blog
Search-Related Legal UpdatesSanta Clara University law professor Eric Goldman, on his Technology and Marketing Law blog, has updates on several search-related laws or lawsuits this week. Search-Related Legal UpdatesSanta Clara University law...
