In recent years, Google has faced both international and national criticism over its privacy policy. In April the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned an order [JURIST report] dismissing a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google, by Viacom [corporate websites], for Google's YouTube [media website; JURIST news archive] service. Last March a Japanese court ordered Google to remove certain search terms [JURIST report] that a Japanese man claimed violated his privacy, by suggesting his name in connection with crimes he did not commit. In February 2012 a judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed [JURIST report] a suit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website], a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] to block Google's proposed privacy policy changes. The new policy allows a user's information to be shared among different Google products, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps. In April 2010,Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled that the use of thumbnail preview images [JURIST report] pulled from websites by Google is not a violation of copyright law.