In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticising government officials or their associates. UK government officials also called on Google to remove content that portrayed the government...
In 2010, those same companies spent $122.9 million lobbying governmental officials. 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...
It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. If you agree, pass it on to your newly elected officials. But because no matter what the outcome, our government will still be a...
As Google expands beyond general search into content development in key search verticals, FairSearch.org encourages government officials to look closely at its ability to use its dominance in search and search advertising to steer users away from...
Last year, Google warned users to check their account settings after discovering a breach that allowed third parties to gain access to the personal Gmail accounts of senior U.S.government officials. The new warning comes following the data breaches...
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that officials in South Korea are looking into the company's handling of mobile data and advertising. In 2010, officials raided the company's offices as part of its investigation in data collection by the...
The company has come under fire from privacy advocates and and government officials following reports that iOS applications have been able to access user address books without notification or permission.
For their part, EFF's senior lawyer Lee Tien offered that the government would need new privacy laws or regulations to prohibit identity verifiers from selling user data or sharing it with law enforcement officials without a warrant.
A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.
As we discussed last year, government officials may seize electronic data including email accounts under this legislation with no probable cause a crime has been committed, no search warrant, and without notifying the user.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously warned U.S.citizens that their Facebook, Yahoo, and Google account information is quite accessible to U.S.government officials. In fact, law enforcement officials don’t even need a search warrant to...
India has the lowest compliance rate, 22 percent, because the majority of requests involve an attempt to complete actions such as "remove a blog and YouTube videos that were critical of Chief Ministers and senior officials of different states.
Google Maps has angered officials and residents of Emden, Germany, by placing their port in the Netherlands. Government Controlled Search Engine Panguso Launches in China by Danny Goodwin Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for...
The global impact of the leaking of 250,000 US government cables (communications between US officials) has been the topic of conversation all over the world for more than a week. During a week when censorship of WikiLeaks' publishing of US...
Iranian government officials have been outraged to discover that a Star of David, the symbol of Judaism, is on the roof of the Iran Air headquarters building. Upon discovering the image on Google Earth, Iranian officials demanded its immediate...
At the urging of U.S.and U.K.officials, YouTube this week removed "some" videos featuring videos of Yemen cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the New York Times reported. From squabbles with the travel industry, to suing the U.S.government, and various privacy...
It said it sent its own crew in the neighborhoods of government officials whose houses had been captured on Street View. It provided the 19 pictures as well as the names of the officials (Harman and 18 Congressional members of the House Energy and...
The Wall Street Journal, citing an AT concern was so great that the Facebook privacy debate caught the attention of legislators, government officials, as well as privacy groups -- who criticized Facebook for not doing enough to protect the privacy...
This attack is significant for a variety of reasons, from its high profile targets to the sophistication of the method to the responses by private companies and government officials. The unspoken implication is that the Chinese government was...
Zeit Online reported that German federal and state government officials are convinced that Google Analytics is against the law in Germany and that it should be forbidden. Consider German government's love-hate relationship with Google, which was...
