Source: Andy Greenberg, Forbes
As the Internet’s political anger has massed around the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act over the last month, the world’s biggest Web firm has remained almost entirely silent.
Tag Archives: Google
Time for Google to speak out against CISPA
May 3, 2012 – 1:54 am
Googler Sergey Brin cries crocodile tears on threats to ‘open Internet’
April 27, 2012 – 5:07 pm
Source: Dwayne Winseck, The Globe and Mail
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, kicked off The Guardian newspaper’s “Battle for the Internet” series last week with a full-throated defense of open data and an open Internet.
Android engineered to enable data harvesting
April 11, 2012 – 11:38 am
Source: Paul Roberts, Threat Post
In this question and answer session, Brodeur corresponds with Threatpost about his ongoing work studying the Android operating system, and how a combination of loose application coding and insecure design makes Google’s Android a boon for advertisers and others who want to harvest data on mobile users
Indian government to ask Yahoo, Gmail to route all mails through servers in India
February 21, 2012 – 1:53 pm
Source: The Times of India
Internet content providers Yahoo, Gmail and others would be asked to route all emails accesed in India through the country even if the mail account is registered outside the country.
Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears
February 19, 2012 – 11:00 am
Source: Joseph Menn, Reuters
This week’s revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.
Access to Google sites returns in Iran, as mysteriously as it disappeared
February 14, 2012 – 11:33 am
Source: Jennifer Preston, The New York Times
After a disruption of access in Iran to Google’s e-mail services and other international Web sites starting last Thursday, access appeared to be restored on Monday, raising questions about whether it was a censorship test by the government for coming elections or an effort to quell possible street protests.
Google and Facebook remove ‘offensive’ content from Indian sites
February 6, 2012 – 5:03 pm
Source: Brid-Aine Parnell, The A Register
Facebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of “objectionable content”.
Google, Facebook censor themselves in India after court order
February 6, 2012 – 3:50 pm
Source: Alex Fitzpatrick, Mashable
Google India and Facebook have removed web pages considered offensive to India’s political and religious leadership to satisfy a court order in a censorship case.
EU officials want Google to suspend privacy policy change
February 3, 2012 – 4:15 pm
Source: Elinor Mills, CNet
European Union officials have asked Google to refrain from implementing its plans to share user information across all of its services until the privacy implications can be analyzed, but Google is standing its ground.
Google puts identity provider pieces in place
February 3, 2012 – 4:15 pm
The past two weeks brought several important developments from Google related to online identity. The big story was Google’s revision to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service which will go into effect March 1 and uniformly govern most of Google’s services. This raises a question. By adopting the various policy changes mentioned, does Google now have an ability to evaluate the veracity of user information associated with accounts?
