Schmidt once again said the firm is operating within the law. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament yesterday and said that Google's proposed changes to its search aren't good enough, and that it's...
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...
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...
While Google failed to comply with the order regarding the media and requested clarification instead, Oracle published its list of individuals and organizations that it had paid, naming blogger Florian Mueller and Stanford professor Paul Goldstein...
One agency I know of probably has more than 100 attorney/law firm clients, and operates under the credo of “we only work with one law firm in each area of practice in each geographic location”. Understanding the gray area between what Google says...
In November 2011, Ohio voters defeated Issue 2, a law that would have limited the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 unionized public workers. The campaign to defeat Issue 2, known as We Are Ohio, hired political consulting and ad agency The...
Mark Kenrick, a partner at law firm Marks he added. Facebook has bought 750 patents from IBM in a move that appears designed to bolster its ability to defend itself against patent-related lawsuits, particularly a recently issued case from rival Yahoo.
House Judiciary Committee), Smith and co-sponsors of the bill would like to make a law requiring proactive monitoring and retention of all IP addresses. In addition to proposing limiting retention to just child pornography investigations, some have...
One of the things that has made us move more slowly than we would like is that we have to cover it from all the angles," he said at an event to discuss the issue hosted by law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse and attended by V3.
Google, meanwhile, said that it will take down any content deemed illegal under local law. We work really hard to make sure that people have as much access to information as possible, while also following the law.
Erin Egan, formerly a partner in the global privacy and data security practice of law firm Covington and Burling, joined as chief privacy officer, policy. In his lengthy post, Zuckerberg said his firm has created two new positions within Facebook...
Schmidt may not like that patent law rewards the first to create something and penalizes all subsequent ones, [but] that's the name of the game. However, intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller argued that Schmidt's comments "totally ignore...
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...
While the lawsuit was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs by Chicago law firm Edelson McGuire, the case is set up to become a class action suit. A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer information (including social...
Several Internet service providers (ISPs) are intentionally hijacking search queries to gain affiliate dollars, according to Reese Richman LLP, a New York Law Firm. Reese Richman filed a lawsuit Aug.against one of the ISPs and the group behind the...
The Challenges Facing David Cameron's Quest To Overhaul UK Copyright Law - paidContent Warning to all SEO consultants: you better read the copy you're working on and understand if it's breaking any laws, because a South Carolina judge found a...
And second, can the New York law be enforced against an Internet firm? Common-law privacy torts .forbid someone from appropriating the name or likeness of another, and several states -- including New York and California -- have such laws.
