‘Google It’ becomes ‘Hide It’ in wake of right to be forgotten
10 years, 8 months ago

‘Google It’ becomes ‘Hide It’ in wake of right to be forgotten

Live Mint  

Brussels/Madrid: Google is synonymous with seeking information. They could have fought it by not acceding to all the requests to pull search results.” Even though Google posted an online tool to handle thousands of removal requests and is blocking results of searches of people’s names, including news and blogs, it’s unclear from the ruling how far Google should be expected to censor the Internet. Because they want to say they were right all along: this is unworkable and it’s censorship.” Google has argued against EU proposals that may require it to delete information on people for years, with one of its lawyers comparing search to a postal service that can’t be blamed for the letters it carries, according to a 2012 blog post. ‘Harm disappears’ “If the link is removed, the harm disappears or is greatly reduced,” Jose Luis Rodriguez Alvarez, the head of the Spanish privacy authority, said in an interview. The New York Times reported that the form may be ready as soon as next week.” Data panel In the meantime, a panel of EU data regulators will start work next week on guidelines for how to deal with complaints when citizens aren’t happy with the way right-to-be-forgotten requests are handled by search-engine companies.

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Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm: Report
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm: Report

Deccan Chronicle  

Google met with President Donald Trump's government last week and urged them to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, according to a person familiar with the matter. As we've publicly said, we're concerned the current proposals would harm the American economy and national security," a Google spokesperson said. The department has laid out potential …

Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case
3 months, 1 week ago

Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case

The Hindu  

Apple has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser. Apple does not plan to build its own search engine to compete with Alphabet's Google, …

UK regulator labels Google 'irresponsible' for letting advertisers track customers’ digital activity
3 months, 2 weeks ago

UK regulator labels Google 'irresponsible' for letting advertisers track customers’ digital activity

Firstpost  

The data watchdog described Google’s move as “irresponsible,” raising concerns that even privacy-conscious users will struggle to avoid being monitored. Fingerprinting, unlike traditional cookies, collects a mix of signals from a device’s software and hardware to uniquely identify users Fingerprinting is far more difficult to detect or block, making it challenging for users to control how their data is collected …

Google Ready to Delete Secret Chrome Browsing Data Of Billions Of Users: Know More
1 year ago

Google Ready to Delete Secret Chrome Browsing Data Of Billions Of Users: Know More

News 18  

– Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately. The class action began in 2020, covering millions of Google users who used private browsing since June 1, 2016. Users alleged that Google's analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly …

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’
1 year, 3 months ago

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar “private” modes in other browsers — to track their internet use. The class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn’t track their …

It's Google versus the US in the biggest antitrust trial in decades
1 year, 6 months ago

It's Google versus the US in the biggest antitrust trial in decades

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google will confront a …

Right To Be Forgotten | Kerala High Court Refuses To Expunge Remarks Suggesting Google To Use AI Tools To Remove Identifiers From Judgments Online
1 year, 11 months ago

Right To Be Forgotten | Kerala High Court Refuses To Expunge Remarks Suggesting Google To Use AI Tools To Remove Identifiers From Judgments Online

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently refused to expunge remarks from its Right to be Forgotten judgment, whereby it was opined that Google is not 'content blind' and it cannot shirk liability to remove judgments and content disclosing personal details of parties.The Division Bench comprising Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen dismissed the petition filed by the search. …

EU court: Google must delete inaccurate search info if asked
2 years, 3 months ago

EU court: Google must delete inaccurate search info if asked

The Hindu  

Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong, the European Union's top court said Thursday. “Since 2014, we've worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe, and to strike a sensible balance between people's rights of access to information and privacy,” the company said in …

Google must delete 'manifestly inaccurate' information if asked, European Union court rules
2 years, 3 months ago

Google must delete 'manifestly inaccurate' information if asked, European Union court rules

ABC  

Google must delete search results about people in Europe if it can be proven the information is clearly wrong, the EU's top court says. Key points: The court ruled search engines must "dereference information" when material is "manifestly inaccurate" EU residents have the right to ask search engines to delete links to outdated or embarrassing information Google says it is …

Expanding the right to privacy
2 years, 8 months ago

Expanding the right to privacy

Hindustan Times  

India’s Supreme Court this week gave its first order enforcing an Indian citizen’s right to be forgotten when it directed the court registry to begin the process on how the details of a married couple, locked in litigation, can be removed from online search engines. The concept first reached global prominence when the European Court of Justice ruled in connection …

Google to erase more location info as abortion bans expand
2 years, 9 months ago

Google to erase more location info as abortion bans expand

Associated Press  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies. Besides automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics, Google also cited counseling centers, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss …

Roe Vs Wade Judgment: Google to Remove Abortion Clinic Visits from History to Ensure Online Security
2 years, 9 months ago

Roe Vs Wade Judgment: Google to Remove Abortion Clinic Visits from History to Ensure Online Security

News 18  

After the United States Supreme Court overturned the Roe V Wade judgement, removing constitutional protections for abortions in the country, several civil rights advocates have been asking one question — how tech companies will ensure online data security. The American tech giant, which has been silent like other tech companies since the controversial judgement was released, said that it would …

Google Now Lets You Remove Your Mobile Number From Search Results, Here's Why
2 years, 11 months ago

Google Now Lets You Remove Your Mobile Number From Search Results, Here's Why

News 18  

OAKLAND, Calif.: Alphabet Inc's Google has begun entertaining people's requests to remove search results containing their home addresses, phone numbers and email accounts, the latest shift in its stance between personal privacy and access to information. "Research has told us there's a larger amount of personally identifiable information that users consider as sensitive," Michelle Chang, global policy lead for Google …

Google wins Supreme Court appeal to block £3bn data action
3 years, 4 months ago

Google wins Supreme Court appeal to block £3bn data action

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A £3bn legal action against …

UK Supreme Court blocks $4.3bn class action against Google
3 years, 4 months ago

UK Supreme Court blocks $4.3bn class action against Google

Al Jazeera  

The decision in the data privacy case upsets a string of similar claims waiting in the wings against other companies, including Facebook and TikTok. The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has blocked a planned 3.2 billion-pound British class action against Google over allegations the internet giant unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users. Lloyd alleged that Google secretly …

Google’s threat to pull search engine draws testy response in Australia
4 years, 2 months ago

Google’s threat to pull search engine draws testy response in Australia

LA Times  

Mel Silva, managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, appears via video link during an Australian Senate inquiry Friday. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison quickly hit back, saying: “We don’t respond to threats.” “Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia,” Morrison told reporters in Brisbane. And that’s how things work here in Australia.” Morrison’s comments …

Google may face UK online advertising antitrust probe after Brexit
4 years, 4 months ago

Google may face UK online advertising antitrust probe after Brexit

Daily Mail  

Google's domination of the UK's £14billion online advertising market must be the primary target of a blockbuster antitrust probe when Britain leaves the EU at the end of 2020, an influential group of publishers and adtech firms demanded today. Google dominates the UK search market across all platforms, especially in mobile, and must face an antitrust investigation, Marketers for an …

Isn't Google violating users' fundamental rights by 'controlling' choices? Parliamentary panel asks
4 years, 5 months ago

Isn't Google violating users' fundamental rights by 'controlling' choices? Parliamentary panel asks

India TV News  

A parliamentary panel on Thursday questioned the "neutrality" of Google when it is engaged in both advertising and content, and asked was it not violating the fundamental rights of users by "controlling" their choices. Top executives of the search engine appeared before the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Personal Data Protection Bill and responded to queries related to data …

US Department of Justice crackdown is reminder that this is Google's world, we just live in it
4 years, 5 months ago

US Department of Justice crackdown is reminder that this is Google's world, we just live in it

Firstpost  

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice sued Google for anticompetitive practices, in the most significant antitrust action by the US government against a technology company in decades About 20 years ago, I typed Google.com into my web browser for the first time. Google said in a tweet that the lawsuit was “deeply flawed.” The company added, “People use Google because …

Obscurity may be the middle ground
4 years, 6 months ago

Obscurity may be the middle ground

Live Mint  

As part of a special series for Mint, Ashi Mehta, a student at the National Law School of India University, looks at how the right to privacy deeply intersects with other rights such as the right to information and right to free speech. The EU Court of Justice first brought this form of privacy protection to the fore when it …

Google warns Australians that they could lose free search service
4 years, 7 months ago

Google warns Australians that they could lose free search service

LA Times  

Google warned Monday that the Australian government’s plan to make it pay for news content threatens its free search service in Australia and could hand user data to media organizations. The U.S.-based company’s warning, contained in what it called an “Open letter to Australians,” comes a week before public consultations close on Australian draft laws that would make both Google …

Google Not Bound To Apply 'Right To Be Forgotten' Globally, Holds European Court of Justice [Read Judgment]
5 years, 6 months ago

Google Not Bound To Apply 'Right To Be Forgotten' Globally, Holds European Court of Justice [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Google is not bound to apply the 'Right to be Forgotten' globally, but only in the member states of the European Union.The case reached the Court after the French Data Protection Authority, France imposed a Penalty of EUR 100 000 on Google because of its refusal, when granting a de-referencing request, to …

Google is not bound to apply its 'right to be forgotten' law outside Europe
5 years, 6 months ago

Google is not bound to apply its 'right to be forgotten' law outside Europe

Firstpost  

Google has to remove links to sensitive personal data from its internet search results in Europe. Google will not have to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law globally, the continent’s top court ruled on Tuesday in a landmark case that has pitted personal privacy rights against freedom of speech. “The court is right to state that the balance between …

Google not required to apply 'right to be forgotten' worldwide: European Court of Justice
5 years, 6 months ago

Google not required to apply 'right to be forgotten' worldwide: European Court of Justice

The Hindu  

Google won its fight against tougher “right to be forgotten” rules after Europe's top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecting a French demand. The case is seen as a test of whether Europe can extend its laws beyond its borders and whether individuals can demand the removal of personal …

Google does not have to grant a ‘right to be forgotten’ outside the EU
5 years, 6 months ago

Google does not have to grant a ‘right to be forgotten’ outside the EU

CNN  

London CNN Business — Europe’s top court has imposed new geographic limits on the “right to be forgotten,” saying that in most cases it should apply only within the European Union. “Since 2014, we’ve worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe, and to strike a sensible balance between people’s rights of access to information and privacy,” …

Google employees protest over its censored search engine in China
6 years, 4 months ago

Google employees protest over its censored search engine in China

India Today  

Earlier this month, Google employees staged a walkout protest at its office the globe to mark their discontent over the company's treatment of sexual harassement cases. More than 200 Google employees have joined a petition protesting against the plans of tech giant to build a search engine that is tailored to meet the demands of China's censorship regime. In an …

Protests against Google’s 'dystopian' CENSORED search engine
6 years, 4 months ago

Protests against Google’s 'dystopian' CENSORED search engine

Daily Mail  

Amnesty International are holding protests across the globe today calling for an end to Googles plan of censoring their search engine in China. It was revealed that Google secretly built the censored search engine, code-named Dragonfly, to blacklist certain words such as 'human rights' and 'student protest'. Activists hold a giant dragonfly-shaped balloon with a banner reading 'Google, do not …

'We're Taking A Stand': Google Workers Protest Plans For Censored Search In China
6 years, 4 months ago

'We're Taking A Stand': Google Workers Protest Plans For Censored Search In China

NPR  

'We're Taking A Stand': Google Workers Protest Plans For Censored Search In China Enlarge this image toggle caption Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 10:30 a.m. The project, code-named Dragonfly, would block certain websites and search terms determined by the Chinese government — a move that, according to a growing number of workers at Google, is tantamount to …

Google is building a censored search engine for China, confirms CEO Sundar Pichai
6 years, 5 months ago

Google is building a censored search engine for China, confirms CEO Sundar Pichai

India Today  

Google Project Dragonfly is real after all. CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed at Wired's 25th anniversary summit that the company is building a censored search engine for China claiming to offer answers to well over 99 per cent of the user quires. This is the first time that the Google CEO has publicly addressed the company's China-centric search plans describing it …

20 years of Google: Privacy, fake news and the future
6 years, 7 months ago

20 years of Google: Privacy, fake news and the future

Hindustan Times  

The search engine is 20 this year, and what a ride it’s been! “The key concern is that Google has grown so big,” says Pranesh Prakash, policy director at Bangalore’s Centre for Internet & Society. In Google’s case, its great size is what brought great power to begin with.” For billions of Google users, the biggest concerns are now of …

Google 'working on special version of search engine' for China, reports claim
6 years, 8 months ago

Google 'working on special version of search engine' for China, reports claim

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google has been criticised over reports that it is working on a version …

Google employees 'confused and angry' about censored search engine for China
6 years, 8 months ago

Google employees 'confused and angry' about censored search engine for China

Firstpost  

According to a report, one of the Google employees called the situation “the new Maven.” Google plans to launch a censored version of its search engine in China which will block some websites and search terms, and finally return to the country’s market after being abandoned eight years ago due to issues regarding censorship. According to a report by the …

EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google
7 years ago

EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google

The Telegraph  

The European Union harbours “grave suspicions” about the dominance of Google and has not ruled out breaking it up, the bloc’s competition commissioner has warned. In June last year, the Danish commissioner hit Google with a record £2.1 billion fine – which the firm is appealing against – for giving its own comparison shopping service an illegal advantage in search …

French court refers the 'right to be forgotten' battle with Google to EU court
7 years, 8 months ago

French court refers the 'right to be forgotten' battle with Google to EU court

Firstpost  

The case had previously erupted in 2014, where Google complied with European Commission of the Court of Justice’ ‘right to be forgotten’ in all European countries, but not globally. The French Court on Wednesday, 20 July, referred the ‘right to be forgotten’ issue between Google and French Data Protection Authority, to the Court of Justice of the European Union. As …

Court: Google must uphold convicted criminal's Right to be Forgotten
7 years, 10 months ago

Court: Google must uphold convicted criminal's Right to be Forgotten

NL Times  

An appellate court in the Netherlands ordered Google to enforce an attorney's demand that web pages detailing his criminal conviction be blocked from appearing in search engine results. Tuesday's decision by the court in Den Haag upheld an earlier ruling by a lower court in Rotterdam, with the decision suggesting the European Union's "Right to be Forgotten" puts the man's …

Delhi High Court asks Centre, Google about 'right to be forgotten'
8 years, 11 months ago

Delhi High Court asks Centre, Google about 'right to be forgotten'

Firstpost  

Does right to privacy include right to delink from the Internet the irrelevant information, the Delhi High Court has asked the Centre and Google. Justice Manmohan sought the responses of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Google Inc., Google India Pvt Ltd and IKanoon Software Development Pvt Ltd on a plea of an NRI seeking that he be “delinked” …

Japan court tells Google to hide man's criminal past
9 years, 1 month ago

Japan court tells Google to hide man's criminal past

Firstpost  

A Japanese court has directed Google to hide a man’s criminal past from its search results, saying he has “the right to be forgotten” to rebuild his life Tokyo: A Japanese court has directed Internet giant Google to hide a man’s criminal past from its search results, saying he has “the right to be forgotten” to rebuild his life, according …

France’s Privacy Regulators Want to Dictate What You (Yes, You!) Can Find Online
9 years, 6 months ago

France’s Privacy Regulators Want to Dictate What You (Yes, You!) Can Find Online

Slate  

Whether you’re an American sitting at a laptop in Hawaii or a Japanese citizen using your smartphone in Kyoto, French privacy regulators believe they have the authority to block search results you otherwise might receive on Google.com or Google.jp. Google’s running transparency report on “European privacy requests for search removals” reveals that, as of Monday, there were nearly 67,000 French …

Google has decided to defy French demand for global 'right to be forgotten'
9 years, 8 months ago

Google has decided to defy French demand for global 'right to be forgotten'

Firstpost  

Google has rejected a French demand to globally apply the so-called right to be forgotten, which requires the company to remove links to certain information about users if asked. “While the right to be forgotten may now be the law in Europe, it is not the law globally,” Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer said in a blog post yesterday. …

French watchdog pressures Google on right 'to be forgotten'
9 years, 9 months ago

French watchdog pressures Google on right 'to be forgotten'

Firstpost  

Google must scrub search results worldwide when it agrees to requests from users to be “forgotten”, rather than just from European versions of its website, France’s data protection regulator said on Friday. But EU data protection watchdogs, many legal experts and former German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who has advised Google on privacy following the European ruling, think it should …

French privacy agency orders Google to remove global links
9 years, 9 months ago

French privacy agency orders Google to remove global links

Associated Press  

PARIS — France’s data privacy agency ordered Google to remove search results worldwide upon request, giving the company two weeks to apply the “right to be forgotten” globally. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of CNIL, said the order to remove search results globally “is only telling international companies that operate in Europe that they must conform to European law.” Google said it …

European Union Accuses Google Of Abusing Its Market Dominance
9 years, 11 months ago

European Union Accuses Google Of Abusing Its Market Dominance

NPR  

European Union Accuses Google Of Abusing Its Market Dominance The European Union has been looking into whether Google favors its own products in online searches. SHAPIRO: Well, the European Union has been looking into whether Google favors its own products in online searches because, remember, Google is much more than a search engine. At the same time, this morning, European …

Breakup Google: EU Parliament now in favour of splitting search engine from other services
10 years, 4 months ago

Breakup Google: EU Parliament now in favour of splitting search engine from other services

Firstpost  

European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators to break up Google, the latest setback for the world’s most popular Internet search engine. They wrote to the Commission asking it to launch a public consultation “to discuss the framework that should be applied to these economic actors, to see if today’s competition rules allow us to …

European parliament backs plan to break up search providers
10 years, 4 months ago

European parliament backs plan to break up search providers

Live Mint  

Brussels: Lawmakers added to Google Inc.’s regulatory woes in the European Union after they voted overwhelmingly for the EU to consider breaking up search engines to bolster competition. The European parliament backed a resolution by 384 votes to 174, asking the European Commission—which is investigating Google for possible antitrust violations—to consider “unbundling search engines from other commercial services”. “European enterprises …

Europe debates how far to push 'right to be forgotten'
10 years, 8 months ago

Europe debates how far to push 'right to be forgotten'

Firstpost  

European regulators have not yet decided whether to try to force search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to scrub results globally when people invoke their “right to be forgotten” in the region. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin - who heads France’s privacy watchdog and the WP29 group of EU national data protection authorities - said in an interview on Friday that …

In Europe, Google Stumbles Between Free Speech And Privacy
10 years, 8 months ago

In Europe, Google Stumbles Between Free Speech And Privacy

NPR  

In Europe, Google Stumbles Between Free Speech And Privacy Enlarge this image toggle caption Dominic Lipinski/PA Photos/Landov Dominic Lipinski/PA Photos/Landov Google is trying to make sense of a sweeping decision about the Internet. Internet law expert Nico van Eijk at the University of Amsterdam points to a key legal difference between Europe and the U.S. "The European concept of privacy …

Google starts blocking Europe links after 70,000 'right to be forgotten' requests
10 years, 8 months ago

Google starts blocking Europe links after 70,000 'right to be forgotten' requests

Firstpost  

Google said it had received 70,000 requests since it put a form online on 30 May as a result of the ruling by the European Court of Justice. More than 70,000 people have already asked Google to delete links about them under Europe’s “right to be forgotten” ruling, with some of the worlds biggest news sites the first to be …

Google starts removing personal information to comply with the 'right to be forgotten'
10 years, 9 months ago

Google starts removing personal information to comply with the 'right to be forgotten'

ABC  

Google has begun removing some search results to comply with a European Union ruling upholding citizens' right to have obsolete personal information about them hidden in search engines. Google received more than 41,000 requests over four days after it put up an online form allowing Europeans to request search results be removed, raising fears that the freedom of information on …

The internet never forgets, but it could forgive
10 years, 9 months ago

The internet never forgets, but it could forgive

ABC  

In an age where the internet can record everything about us, what "right" do we have to be forgotten and have that information blocked from search engines like Google? It's certainly a popular idea: within the first few days of Google putting a search removal request form online it was receiving an average of seven requests a minute. Fine, you …

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