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...
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Thailand scraps lawsuit plans against Google over YouTube king video
The Thai government announced Friday that it has decided not to sue internet search giant Google after the company agreed to remove a YouTube video considered insulting to Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej . In April Thailand...
Privacy groups file FTC complaint over Google DoubleClick acquisition
Several Internet privacy groups filed a joint complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday concerning the merger of search engine Google with advertising provider DoubleClick . The groups, including the...
An incarcerated Chinese activist filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Yahoo! Inc. , alleging that the Internet giant aided and abetted human rights violations committed by the Chinese government by providing Chinese officials with information, including...
The government of Thailand said Monday it will continue to block access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube until Google , YouTube's owner, agrees to remove video clips deemed offensive to the country's...
Google settles AFP news aggregation lawsuit with licensing agreement
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Google Friday settled a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit which the French news agency filed two years ago against the Internet giant for automatically pulling and displaying photos, headlines and...
Thailand bans YouTube in response to 'insulting' video of king
The government of Thailand Wednesday banned access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube and several other websites that contain material deemed offensive to the country's monarch. The YouTube ban resulted from a video depicting...
A federal judge on Thursday granted a permanent injunction against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) , a federal law that imposes civil and criminal penalties on website operators for making sexually explicit materials available...
New DOJ emails document White House discussions of US Attorney firings
Hundreds of email documents released by the US Department of Justice late Monday show that, contrary to its earlier claims, the White House was deeply involved in discussions to fire eight US Attorneys last year, according to...
Google Inc. announced a new user privacy policy on Wednesday where, "unless is legally required to retain log data for longer," Google will anonymize search information, such as the query entered, IP addresses, and cookie details,...