Tag Archive | "Europe"
Double Trouble for Google
Twice in the past week, Google has come in contact with Europe’s rather different culture of competition and privacy, leaving Mountain View contemplating investigations and negotiations it would have preferred to avoid.
Continue reading...State AGs heed our call for WiSpy probe
Friday, June 18, 2010
Attorneys general across the United States are responding to Consumer Watchdog's call to investigate Google's WiSpy debacle in which the company used its Street View vehicles to snoop on private WiFi networks for three years.
Continue reading...Should Silicon Valley Be Worried About a Backlash?
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Just last week, Consumer Watchdog released a report claiming Google abuses its dominance of search to steer users to its other products. The revelation that the Google Street View team in Europe had "accidentally" collected large amounts of personal user data through Wi-Fi connections certainly hasn't helped.
Continue reading...Google using search engine to muscle into Internet businesses, study finds
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Google has been using its dominant position in online search to muscle its way into other Internet businesses, ultimately limiting consumer choice, Consumer Watchdog said today in a report written for its new Inside Google Website.
Continue reading...Google needs to come clean on WiSpy
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
As the WiSpy scandal unfolded last week CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking in England, tried to calm the furor by claiming "no harm, no foul." This week it's clear that despite the fondest hopes of those in the Googleplex, the firestorm won't go away.
Continue reading...Outrage continues to grow over Google “WiSpy” effort
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Outrage continues to rise over Google's "WiSpy" efforts that saw its Street View cars snoop on private WiFi networks as they roamed the streets of 30 countries over the last three years. Europeans contemplated criminal charges; U.S. lawmakers asked the Federal Trade Commission what it's doing and a class action suit was filed in Oregon.
Continue reading...Germans incensed by Google’s WiFi snooping on personal data; activity called illegal
Monday, May 17, 2010
Germany’s Consumer Affairs Minister Ilse Aigner blasted Google over the weekend for its “accidental” collection of personal data by Street View cars driving by the homes of citizens in Germany (and the U.S. and other countries all around the world).
Continue reading...Google’s Schmidt passes the buck on privacy
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
With the classic timing of those who want to downplay bad news, Google responded late Friday afternoon to a letter of complaint issued by ten countries last month about the misfired rollout of the Google Buzz social networking application when Google exposed Gmail users’ personal e-mail contacts to the online world without user consent.
Continue reading...We’re number one… or not. The vagaries of Google’s search engine.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
As we ready Inside Google, now in "Beta" mode, for its formal launch I've been checking various search engines to see where the site ranks. Today Google put me at number one.
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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Friday, July 9, 2010
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