From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high. Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last...
Since the government has decided that it's too much trouble for us to have to enter our various user names and passwords when logging into websites, they came up with the idea of NSTIC, wherein Identity Providers will "vouch" for us.
Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U.S.government, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acknowledging it is one of the first firms to do so. Google took the unusual step last month of revealing, albeit in...
Government or Ad Types, the website actually provides faster access to these two attributes by also including them in the main navigation bar (accompanied by similar filters). Last week, Google launched its updated Think Insights website.
Official studies put the number of languages spoken in India somewhere around 325, with 22 of those being recognized as official languages by the government. Your domestic SEO program is progressing well.
Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the...
Add to that blogs on education and schools, blogs on local government, not to mention a host of blogs on public relations, online reputation and online mess-ups! Sometimes a breaking news story spreads like wildfire.
In China, most people are still on dial-up, plus have a massive government firewall to further increase slowdown. Don’t even bring it up around me unless you're prepared to listen to me chat about it for the next 20 hours straight.
Governments, he says, will find it "too risky" to have thousands of citizens "anonymous, untraceable and unverified" online, suggesting they will want to require verification of all online accounts at some level of government.
Once the Internet starts, citizens in a country can certainly build on top of it, but the government has to do something. They have to make it possible for people to use the internet, which the government in North Korea has not yet done.
Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70 percent over the last two years – with a little more information on how it deals with and why it responds to government data...
Twitter's transparency report shows that governmental requests for data have grown over the course of 2012. Governments from around the world made 1,858 requests for Twitter data during the second half of 2012 – up from 849 requests in the first half.
In their blog announcement, Google released the following stats from July to December 2012: percent of the requests Google received from government entities in the U.S.were through subpoenas. Google first announced their Transparency Report back in...
These spikes began to take form once the government began to discuss more laws and restrictions on weapons in society. With the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and the prior shooting at a movie theater in Colorado...
Political upheavals: We have clients that rely heavily on government contracts. Optimizing PPC campaigns with faulty data is like driving with an upside down map. You’ll end up in the exact opposite direction of your destination.
Greatfire speculates that it might be due to pressure from the glorious Chinese government. The Chinese government employs what is called the Great Firewall of China, and controls its citizens' use of the internet with a firm hand.
Sure Google, PayPal and Equifax were federally credentialed Identity Providers (IdPs) and there were governing bodies, massive government involvement and private firms all chomping at the proverbial bit.
Think of local government sites, local newspapers, local job boards, local event and meet-up sites, local restaurant bloggers, and so on. One phrase that has been ubiquitous when discussing offsite SEO tactics for the past decade is “link...
Google has created a website to warn its German users about government proposals to control the Internet. The website is called "Verteidige dein netz" or Defend your network, and Google has launched it to warn people in Germany about proposed...
The search giant spent its funds lobbying the U.S.government on patent, antitrust, and telecommunications issues. Lobbying the U.S.government has been a growing source of spending for tech firms in recent years.
