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Google Privacy Measures

October 24th, 2010

Google’s updating their privacy standards in a big way after the huge debacle over Street View vehicles in Germany picking up WiFi transmissions earlier this year. According to the Official Google Blog post back in May: “In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories [...]

 
 

Google Wins in Spain, Loses in Czech Republic

September 23rd, 2010

The EU is a constant battleground for Google. The latest country to fight Google’s notorious Street View is the Czech Republic. From eBrandz: “The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection said on Wednesday it has rejected for the second time to permit Google to acquire images for its panoramic Street View service stating that its [...]

 
 

Google In Trouble Globally – Again

April 20th, 2010

First it was Street View. Then China and the huge hubbub over censorship. Then the YouTube bullying video. Then came Google Buzz. Americans and UKers had a bit of a fit, effectively killing the app, but the real whammy came Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal: Privacy officials from 10 countries Monday sent Google [...]

 
 

More Fun Stuff from Google

February 2nd, 2010

Google constantly adds cool gadgets and tools and gear to make life easier. According to the WSJ, Google may even be planning an answer to Apples’ wildly popular apps store. Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, [...]

 
 

Google Street View Blindsided in Greece

May 22nd, 2009

  One after another, countries in Europe halt Google’s Street View, which gives users a 360-degree view of a road via Google Maps, or else demand less invasive filming and cataloguing of their city streets. The latest country to slam the brakes on Google’s Street View cars is Greece; Greece’s data protection agency has stopped [...]