Fahad HJul 31, 20142 min readEU Readying New Android Antitrust Complaint Against GoogleAccording to a Reuters article, which is consistent with earlier news reports, European competition authorities are laying the foundation...
Fahad HJul 22, 20142 min readItalian Privacy Police Give Google 18 Months To Make ChangesItaly is the latest country to issue what amounts to an ultimatum to Google to change its privacy practices or face fines (up to $1...
Fahad HJul 17, 20142 min readAre Sponsored YouTubers With Undisclosed Deals Breaking The Law?As YouTube publishers specializing in commentating and reviewing have become ultra popular, the pressure to infiltrate with brand...
Fahad HJul 14, 20142 min readGoogle Tries To Kill Android Class Action Before It Gets Goingpicked up the baton, filing a would-be class action in California federal district court. On Friday, Google moved to dismiss the case....
Fahad HJul 1, 20141 min readGoogle Launches CookieChoices Site To Help Publishers With EU Cookie ComplianceCookieChoices to help publishers understand the European Union’s cookie compliance regulations. Bill Hartzer was the first to spot this,...
Fahad HJun 27, 20142 min readGoogle Earns Ad Money Off YouTube Videos Hawking Stolen Credit Cards, Says Watchdog GroupThe Digital Citizens Alliance, an internet safety coalition, is calling out Google for allowing videos that promote the sale of stolen...
Fahad HJun 23, 20142 min readLetter Hints At Many New EU Investigations Against Googlereporting that a letter from European Competition chief Joaquín Almunia seeks to rally support for the existing Google antitrust...
Fahad HJun 17, 20142 min readGoogle’s Android Draws Fresh Antitrust Complaint In EuropeThere are also older complaints about Android before the European Commission (EC). According to an article in the Wall Street Journal the...
Fahad HJun 11, 20142 min readBook Scanning Suits Against Google, Others Wind Down With Fair Use RulingsThe US Court of Appeal (2nd. Circuit) ruling reported yesterday affirms that full-text book scanning is generally going to be considered...
Fahad HMay 30, 20143 min readGoogle To Start “Forgetting” As Removal Request Form Goes Live In Europeexplained last night by Danny Sullivan, the Right to Be Forgotten has gone into effect in Europe, and Google has put up its “please...
Fahad HMay 16, 20142 min read10 People Who Want To Be Forgotten By Google, From An Attempted Murderer To A CyberstalkerWho wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...
Fahad HMay 6, 20141 min readGoogle Asks Appeals Court To Toss Out AdWords Patent Infringement VerdictVringo won the case (I/P Engine Inc. v. AOL Inc., 14-1233) in which it claimed the filtering technology used in Google’s AdWords system...
Fahad HMay 5, 20142 min readPatent Verdict: Apple Wins The Round But Fails To Land A Blow Vs. SamsungAfter a hard fought and widely publicized trial, Apple extracted a jury verdict of just $119 million against the Korean company. It’s a...
Fahad HApr 15, 20142 min readGoogle Tells Users It Scans Their Email As Microsoft Puts “Scroogled” To Bedupdated its terms of service (TOS) yesterday to make more explicit the fact that it scans Gmail for the purpose of matching email content...
Fahad HApr 2, 20143 min readGoogle Takes “SpyView” Wiretapping Appeal To SCOTUSseeks US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) review of a US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which affirmed a lower court denial of Google’s...
Fahad HApr 1, 20142 min readSecond Apple Patent Suit Vs. Samsung Ropes In GoogleThe parties return to court this week for another round of patent-for-tat. The new case presents five Apple claims against Samsung and...
Fahad HMar 31, 20141 min readGoogle Fined For “Non-Cooperation” In Indian Antitrust Inquirysettled its investigation of Google without any significant penalty or restrictions. More recently, the long European antitrust inquiry...
Fahad HMar 19, 20142 min readJudge Denies Class Action Status To Gmail “Wiretapping” Suit, Effectively Killing ItGoogle received a major win yesterday in the potentially massive Gmail “wiretapping” litigation. Class action status was denied to the...
Fahad HMar 17, 20142 min readGoogle Seeking To Keep Depth Of Gmail Scanning Confidentialconstitutes illegal “wiretapping.” Google is reportedly trying to keep confidential many of the details of its internal processes and...
Fahad HMar 12, 20141 min readGoogle Celebrates The Web’s 25th Birthday With Plea To Keep It Free“ Today’s Google homepage includes a small birthday cake image with a “25” candle on top to celebrate the web’s 25th birthday. The image...
