China defends Internet freedom policies in response to Clinton speech
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu on Friday accused the US of harming bilateral relations with China after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , gave a speech promoting Internet freedom and...
The Italian trial of four Google, Inc. executives was delayed Tuesday until September 29 because of an ill interpreter. The four executives, product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, former CFO George Reyes, chief legal officer David Drummond, and...
Executives from Google, Inc. will go on trial Tuesday in Italy for criminal defamation arising out of Google Video content depicting a disabled boy being teased and bullied. The defendants include product marketing manager...
EU justice commissioner prods Google to shorten data retention period
EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot on Thursday said Google is taking a "step in the right direction" by keeping data on search engine users for nine months rather than...
Federal judge orders Google to turn over YouTube user data in Viacom lawsuit
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday ordered Google to turn over databases containing logs of every time any IP address has accessed any YouTube ...
Google called for new international laws to protect personal information online at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conference Friday, urging that an international body such as the...
EU data protection chief flags privacy concerns ahead of presidency switch
European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx expressed concern in letters sent Monday to the Portuguese ministers for justice and the interior that privacy and data protection are increasingly being sacrificed in the...
Google announces new data retention policy in response to EU privacy concerns
Google Monday announced a new data retention policy, saying that its servers will retain personally identifiable information for 18 months and not its previous policy of 18 to 24 months. Google's policy revision came in...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an investigation into a proposed purchase of advertising management technology company DoubleClick Inc. by Google Inc. for possible anti-trust violations, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Google...
The European Commission said Friday that an independent advisory panel will investigate Internet search engine giant Google to determine whether it complies with EU privacy rules . The Article 29...
