Fahad HJul 15, 20132 min readMajor Ad Networks Sign Anti-Piracy Best Practices Aimed To Starve Piracy Sites Of Ad RevenuesPressure has been mounting on Google, in particular, and the online ad network industry in general to combat online counterfeiting and...
Fahad HJul 5, 20131 min readUK’s ICO Watchdog Tells Google To Update Privacy Policy By September 20th Or ElseThe Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK has set a deadline of September 20, 2013 for Google to amend the policy to make it easier...
Fahad HJul 1, 20132 min readGoogle Book Scanning Class Action Likely To DisappearFair Use. Fair Use is a copyright exception that allows certain parties to reproduce a copyrighted work without paying royalties to the...
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 24, 20132 min readGoogle’s $1 Billion Waze Acquisition To See Antitrust ReviewIn addition, Waze becomes one fewer potential mapping challenger in the marketplace. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FTC “is...
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 15, 20133 min readGoogle, Facebook In Transparency Battle Over PRISM Disclosuresdisclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...
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...
Fahad HJun 11, 20133 min readGoogle, Facebook & Microsoft Ask US Gov’t For Permission To Report FISA Data RequestsDuring the whirlwind of news about the PRISM/NSA scandal, news has circulated that all three companies are providing large amounts of...
Fahad HJun 7, 20134 min readImaginary Letter: Google CEO Larry Page Writes Congress, Asks “What’s Up With PRISM?ROver the years, Google has received several letters from the US Congress worried that it is somehow invading people’s privacy. Now...
Fahad HJun 7, 20133 min readScope of Alleged Spying On Americans’ Internet Activity Massive, “Beyond Orwellian”Those data, it has been alleged, come in large part from direct access to the servers of most of the Internet’s biggest brands: Google,...
Fahad HJun 3, 20133 min readGoogle In Secret Legal Battle With Feds Over Consumer Datato resist. Whether the Bush Administration anti-child porn search subpoenas were a pretext for other types of inquiries we’ll never know....
Fahad HMay 27, 20133 min readEU-Google “Rival Links” Antitrust Settlement Provision Creates New Controversysettlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics...
Fahad HMay 23, 20132 min readMore Antritrust Pain For Google: FTC To Probe Display Ads BizBloomberg, Google is facing yet another antitrust headache at the hands of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency is fresh off...
Fahad HMay 22, 20132 min readApple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claimsaccording to Foss Patents, which also reports that Apple asserts Google Now infringes two patents associated with Siri. Overall, there...
Fahad HMay 20, 20132 min readTwo New Shoes Drop On Google: UK Tax Whistleblower And Canadian Antitrust ActionFinancial Post, the country’s Competition Bureau is preparing to launch a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s Canadian business...
