Fahad HNov 21, 20132 min readGerman Court: Google Privacy Policy Violates Consumer Rightsreport from IDG news service. Google has had trouble and been criticized in Europe since consolidating its many privacy policies into one...
Fahad HNov 18, 20132 min readNearly $40 Million Later, Google Ends “Cookiegate” Scandalreported earlier today Google will pay $17 million “to settle allegations brought by 37 states and the District of Columbia that it...
Fahad HNov 17, 201310 min readGoogle’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine?In the past, Google might have explained such shifts in an attempt to maintain user trust. Now, Google either assumes it has so much user...
Fahad HNov 12, 20131 min readBacklash Over Google+ Integration Into YouTube Comments Continues To GrowYouTube comments “powered” by Google+ in September, a YouTube Product Forum has been bombarded with backlash from users wanting Google+...
Fahad HNov 11, 20133 min readGoogle Quietly Testing Offline Store Visits TrackingLast month Google announced a program called “Estimated Total Conversions.” That program is intended to report or provide visibility into...
Fahad HOct 16, 20133 min readIs Microsoft’s Scroogled Campaign Working? Not If Gaining Consumers Is The GoalScroogled” campaign for almost a year now. Is it working? Ad Age has an interesting story with experts saying yes, in terms of ad...
Fahad HOct 14, 20131 min readUS Sen. Markey Calls For FTC Investigation Over Google’s “Shared Endorsements”has asked the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at Google’s “Shared Endorsements” ads. On Thursday when the New York Times...
Fahad HOct 11, 20137 min readThe Questions Google Refuses To Answer About Search PrivacyLast month, Google made one of the biggest changes in search privacy ever, by routing all searches through its Google Secure Search...
Fahad HOct 2, 20132 min readGoogle Confronts Unwelcome “Wiretapping” Class Actionsreported in the New York Times, Google is confronting two “wiretapping” class actions that have been allowed to move forward in the...
Fahad HSep 30, 20132 min readFrance To Fine Google On Privacy, Low UK Taxes Draw IreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that France’s privacy regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL),...
Fahad HSep 20, 20131 min readMicrosoft’s Ballmer: Google Is A “Monopoly”At a recent meeting of financial analysts Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterized Google as a search “monopoly,” implying the company...
Fahad HAug 9, 20131 min readMicrosoft’s Latest Scroogled Target: Google’s “Gspam” Ads That Look Like EmaOr, as Microsoft is calling it today, “Gspam.” That’s the term they’re using for those ads that look like emails in Gmail (which, last I...
Fahad HJul 17, 20133 min readEurope Calls For More Concessions From Google, Survey Says “Rival Links” Not EnoughAccording to the NY Times, Almunia said that Google needs to “improve” its current proposal: “I concluded that the proposals that Google...
Fahad HJun 28, 20132 min readWould Europe “Ban” Google Universal Search Results?EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia negotiated the current settlement with Google over a period of months. The specific...
Fahad HJun 26, 20132 min readEurope: Google Wins “Censorship” Battle, Slammed On Antitrust ProposalsOn Monday, an advisory (non-binding) opinion from Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice found that Google cannot (or should not)...
Fahad HJun 21, 20132 min readTo Avoid Copyright Liability, Google News Goes Opt-In In Germanymore restrictive copyright law was passed in Germany that gave publishers near total control over the use of their content (there’s no...
Fahad HJun 21, 20132 min readGoogle Has 35 Days To Delete UK “SpyView” Data Or Face “Criminal Action”Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served notice that Google must destroy personal information obtained from its Street View...
Fahad HJun 20, 20132 min readGoogle Given Privacy Ultimatum By French: Fix It Or Face Finesaccording to Bloomberg. Many nations in Europe have lined up behind the French who are taking the lead in trying to get Google to offer...
Fahad HJun 13, 20131 min readEuropeans Take New Look At Google’s Android Licensing Practicesreporting that Google is now “facing an investigation by European authorities into allegations that it supported the leading Android...
Fahad HJun 13, 20131 min readUK Government Report: Google’s Tax Position “Deeply Unconvincing”reported yesterday that a UK Parliamentary Committee found, essentially, Google had improperly avoided paying taxes in the UK by routing...
