As expected, the home page of Google France now carries a notification to users that Google was fined for privacy violations relating to...

imposition of a fine by the French National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL) for violating consumer privacy, Google...

was fined for violating French privacy rules with its “unified” privacy policy. The French National Commission for Computing and Civil...

filed a complaint with the FTC over Google’s recent rollout of a feature that lets Gmail users contact Google+ users without knowing the...

In the process of the investigation, Canada’s privacy watchdog also found Google’s automated ad review system to have “demonstrable...

Cookiegate” episode, on jurisdictional grounds. As you may recall, Cookiegate arose when Google was discovered surreptitiously...

With the NSA spying scandal and a brewing transatlantic privacy dispute in the background, Google was given the maximum fine, 150,000...

Simon Davies has filed a formal privacy complaint in 14 European countries against Google’s expanded “Shared Endorsements” ad program....

report from IDG news service. Google has had trouble and been criticized in Europe since consolidating its many privacy policies into one...

reported earlier today Google will pay $17 million “to settle allegations brought by 37 states and the District of Columbia that it...

has asked the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at Google’s “Shared Endorsements” ads. On Thursday when the New York Times...

NOTE: See our follow-up story, FAQ: All About Google’s New “Shared Endorsement” Ads According to a report in the New York Times: On...

reported in the New York Times, Google is confronting two “wiretapping” class actions that have been allowed to move forward in the...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that France’s privacy regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL),...

At a recent meeting of financial analysts Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterized Google as a search “monopoly,” implying the company...

affirmed a lower court ruling denying Google’s motion to dismiss a class action brought after the 2010 Street View private “payload data”...

What’s Search Term Referrer Data? Referrer data allows publishers to understand the exact terms used by people who search at Google and...

lawsuit claiming the site had given private information included in user search queries to third parties without gaining consent from...

In early 2011, South Korean search and portal providers NHN Corp. and Daum Communications filed antitrust complaints with the South...

According to the NY Times, Almunia said that Google needs to “improve” its current proposal: “I concluded that the proposals that Google...