Ireland’s privacy watchdog has launched a bid to refer Facebook’s data transfer mechanism to the European Union’s top court in a landmark case that could put the shifting of data across the Atlantic under renewed legal threat. The move is the latest challenge to the various methods by which large tech firms such as Google […]
Ireland Challenges Facebook in What Could Become a Landmark Data Case…
Judge Sides with Microsoft, Allows “Gag Order” Challenge to Advance…
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Seattle allowed Microsoft’s lawsuit against the government to go forward. US District Judge James Robart ruled that the company does, in fact, have standing to sue the Department of Justice on behalf of its customers. Microsoft’s case has drawn support from a number of major tech companies, including Apple, […]
97 Tech Companies Including Twitter, Netflix File Legal Brief Condemning Trump’s Immigration Order…
The onslaught targeting President Trump’s immigration executive order continued overnight, when virtually all US tech corporations, from Apple to Zynga, including Twitter, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft, banded together late on Sunday to file an “impassioned” brief condemning Trump’s temporary immigration ban, arguing that it “inflicts significant harm on American business”…
Google’s Eric Schmidt Considering Lawsuit…
A $500B Pot of Gold: How Boston Consulting and Google Pushed Modi to End the Era of Cash…
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the omnipresent US-consulting company, and Google, the global data miner, issued a joint report in July 2016 on the “$500 bn Pot of Gold”, which is the Indian digital payment market. Even though the authors deny it, the report gives much reason to suspect that the authors knew that something radical […]
Google Permanently Bans 200 “Fake News” Sites…
The crackdown has begun. In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained…
FacebookTwitterGoogle Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims Families…
Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State. The lawsuit is the latest to target popular Internet services for making it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message…
Google Publishes Eight Secret FBI Requests…
Google revealed in October it had been freed from a gag order preventing it from talking about a secret FBI request for customer data made in 2015. The internet search company chose at the time not to publish the actual subpoena, but it is now releasing redacted versions of that letter and seven others…
Google Removes Anti-Semitic Autocompletes from its Search Engines…
Google has responded to claims of anti-Semitism in its search engines by altering autocomplete suggestions. Suggestions for the phrase “are Jews…” by a Google search engine are usually followed by “evil”. People searching “are women…” had autocomplete suggest “evil” and for “are Muslims…”, “bad” was the suggestion…