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Google Will ‘Fight’ for AdMob Deal, Schmidt Says
Consumer Watchdog and Center for Digital Democracy were concerned more about the impact the deal would have on consumers' ability to protect their privacy than the possible antitrust implications of the acquisition.
Continue reading...Can we draw any conclusions from Google’s new look?
Friday, May 7, 2010
Internet giant Google spiffed up its look and redesigned the appearance of its search pages this week. The move left me wondering what inferences, if any, can be drawn about the Internet giant's attitude toward intellectual property.
Continue reading...Facebook Bug Exposed Users’ Chats, Requests for Friends
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
“The problem is that Silicon Valley companies rush to get technology out and they just do things and ask for forgiveness later,” said John Simpson, who works on privacy issues for Consumer Watchdog. “But too much is at stake.”
Continue reading...Online Advertisers Targeted in Privacy Moves
Monday, May 3, 2010
With behavioural targeting and privacy becoming hot internet issues, a coalition of consumer and privacy advocacy groups is taking their fight for online rights to Capitol Hill. The sizeable coalition - its members are Consumer Action, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Lives, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Privacy Times, US Public Interest Research Group and the World Privacy Forum - says industry self-regulation has not provided meaningful consumer protection and legislation is needed.
Continue reading...Congressmen question proposed AdMob deal
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Google's controversial $750 million deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob has raised more doubts, this time from Capitol Hill.
Continue reading...Ohio AG backs antitrust suit against Google
Friday, April 30, 2010
In yet another indication of the seriousness of the mounting antitrust concerns about Goolge, the Ohio Attorney General, Richard A. Cordray, has weighed in on the side of myTriggers, an internet search firm suing Google for unfair anticompetitive practices
Continue reading...Gathering your WiFi data – Google’s business plan
Friday, April 30, 2010
Government data protection authorities in Germany and the UK are questioning the collection of information on individual WiFI networks by Google’s Street View cars traversing their local streets.
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Australian news video calls Google “a company on steroids”
Monday, April 19, 2010
A video produced by Hungry Beast, a weekly news show on Australian television puts Internet giant ...
Continue reading...Questions mount about Google’s AdMob deal
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
More concerns about Google's $750 million proposed deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob were raised Tuesday. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote Jonathan Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, warning that the proposed deal "raises important competition issues which should be reviewed carefully..."
Continue reading...April Fool! Parodies on Google or is the joke on us?
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Google’s April Fool joke this year – renaming its search site “Topeka” – was a self-congratulatory disappointment compared with some of the funny self-parodies of previous years, for instance, here or here. The mayor of Topeka in March announced a month-long renaming of Kansas’ capital city to “Google, KS” as part of the city’s bid […]
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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