UK government officials also called on Google to remove content that portrayed the government in a negative light. From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high.
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. Those optimizations you sent to the UK team still haven't been implemented.
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! The story first broke in Ireland, spread to the UK and then to Europe.
The UK also came in the top five for most requests with 25. In comparison, UK officials only made 11 requests for data during the first half of 2012. Twitter's transparency report shows that governmental requests for data have grown over the course...
In 1952, he had to stop his work with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). As punishment, the British government sentenced one of the undisputed geniuses of that time to chemical castration, via regular injections of estrogen.
Google is alarmed by government requests to remove political content from search results, fearing that free expression may be at risk. Google found that their videos did violate YouTube’s Community Guidelines and as a result, complied with the...
Google had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with the government's demands, but after the firm was the subject of a major hacking attack, the company decided to take a stance...
Google and the UK government's Campus project has opened its doors, providing tech startups with mentoring and a free work space. We want the UK to become the hub for technology in Europe as a whole," said Osborne, according to reports from the BBC.
Perhaps the real creepy factor you should be worried about is Google’s growing relationship with the government. At a time when the European Commission is proposing to significantly enhance the protection of consumer privacy, Google need to be...
Google also settled with the U.S.government for $3 million in 2007 over online gambling ads. Selling tickets on the open market without permission from the Olympic authorities is a criminal offence in the UK under the London Olympic and Paralympic...
The project took off when it got a contract with the UK Government, and additional clients since have included CNN and Google, among others. According to a TechCrunch report on the new engine, "You can work out the carbon footprint of 10kg of...
The simple fact that this affiliate site provides useful information means it has received recommendations from The New York Times and from the UK government. Providing value as an affiliate is key to survive in 2011,” UK based affiliate Richard...
There's plenty of logic in governments using the social tools at hand; anti-government and illegal activities, such as the UK riots in August, the Anonymous DDoS attacks, and revolutionary actions in Egypt all took great advantage of social media.
In November 2010, UK prime minister David Cameron set out the government's ambition for London's East End, specifically the area between Old Street and the Queen Elizabeth Park in Stratford, to become a world-leading 'Tech City' to rival Silicon...
The UK government has come out and said they don’t trust Facebook with customer data. Perhaps you saw a friend post a message over the weekend that Facebook is planning to charge for “gold,” “silver” and “bronze” membership services.
The Federal Government will enable the private sector and will lead by example through the early adoption and provision of Identity Ecosystem services It will partner with the private sector to develop the Identity Ecosystem, and it will ensure...
Here are some government sources for the US and Europe: data.gov, data.gov.uk and ourdata.eu. I would start with older libraries, colleges, government offices, archives, and used book stores. It's all about finding the opportunity, repackaging it...
Schmidt's argument that technology moves to fast for government to legislate on piracy and copyright was dismissed as opinion from a misguided parallel universe by Sarkozy. Google Testing Flight Search Results in UK - SEOgadgetLocally targeted...
Eric Schmidt compares blocking access to illicit filesharing sites such as PirateBay to China blocking websites via the Great Firewall and says that Google will challenge UK government plans to fight piracy (such as the Digital Economy Act).
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