‘Google’

  • Germany fines Google for privacy violations
    German authorities said on Monday they had fined Google for illegally collecting massive amounts of personal data including emails, passwords and photos while setting up its disputed Street View service. The data protection office in the northern city of Hamburg said it had slapped the US Internet giant with a 145,000-euro ($189,000) penalty for privacy violations on what...
    April 22, 2013 18:48
  • Facebook and Google set aside rivalry to create huge ‘new Nobel prize’ for science worth $15million
    Google and Facebook founders and their spouses have set aside their rivalries to create the most lucrative prize in science history – more than double the value of the Nobel prize. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki have joined forces to launch the Breakthrough in Life Sciences...
    February 21, 2013 23:44
  • EU to act against Google over privacy: French agency
    European data protection agencies intend to take action against the US Internet giant Google after it failed to follow their orders to comply with EU privacy laws, the French data protection authority said on Monday. In October the data protection agencies warned Google that its new privacy policy did not comply with EU laws and gave it four months to comply or face legal...
    February 18, 2013 22:43