In the ruling, Jääskinen said that Google and other search engines are not subject to privacy requirements under existing European data protection law. He explained that based on present law citizens don't have a right to be removed from search...
In particular, Google seeks a declaratory judgment that Google has a right under the First Amendment to publish, and that no applicable law or regulation prohibits Google from publishing, two aggregate unclassified numbers: (1) the total number of...
Too Small: Follow Matt Cutts to the letter of the law. As the Penguin 2.0 dust settles the SEO pundits are racing to interpret what Google has done and what it means. But unlike many other industries where there are watchdog groups, checks-and...
When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by law.
Reason 1: Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law Brands and businesses were initial skeptical about the validity of social as a marketing and business development channel. Now, it seems the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme.
Schmidt once again said the firm is operating within the law. The European Commission (EC) has revealed that it is likely to reject Google's proposed search changes. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European...
Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally...
They've managed to harvest enough information, track enough movement and apply both on a real-time basis, that even if you believe in the law of gravity and your ability to "sign out" with equal faith, they can still hit you with targeted ads...
Google challenged Russia’s censorship, saying, "We do not believe that the goal of the law was to limit access to videos that are clearly intended to entertain viewers. Other critics of the law say it could lead to more censorship by the government...
Another instance involved a UK local law enforcement agency's request to take down a YouTube video that falsely portrayed an official wearing a racist uniform. Local law enforcement also asked that another YouTube video be taken down because it...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the firm’s UK tax payments, claiming it operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of spend in the country. I think the most important thing to say about our taxes is that we fully...
The rel=author tag is particularly powerful if you're in a business where your personal brand is as important as your organization’s brand, such as law, medicine, real estate, and consulting. Google authorship has made it easier for small- and...
If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on...
If the firm can succeed in its fight against NSLs then it could open the floodgates for others to stand up against a law that some see to be nothing more than a snooper's charter. Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U...
Google's privacy policies are under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to see if they are illegal under UK law. The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the...
Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...
Influence follows a “power law,” where a relatively small number of individuals drive the lion's share of social referrals. This fundamental change has been driven by the rapid adoption of social media and mobile devices.
It's important for law enforcement agencies to pursue illegal activity and keep the public safe. We're a law-abiding company, and we don't want our services to be used in harmful ways," he added. We scrutinize the request carefully to make sure it...
Google's Richard Slagado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security, stated they will release those numbers in a separate report from here forward and to "stay tuned" for those data. Today, Google released new data in the...
The rest of the infographic contains horn-tooting numbers to give law-abiding advertisers and consumers the warm-and-fuzzies. Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads.
