Apart from running advertisements on email messages read by its users, news is out that Google is diverting the personal information of its users to Android app developers who are benefiting from the existence of Google Play. Google is only able to manipulate consumers’ names, email addresses and geographic locations when its users utilize its [...]
It is now news that search engine giant Google will not be sued by the FTC for committing overt acts which did affect the way other online service providers did their business on the internet. The FTC had initially decided to sue Google because it reasonably believed that the search giant had made its results incredibly biased so as to [...]
Google has been sued by a woman in Pennsylvania for allegedly attaching advertisements to emails she sent to Gmail users. Google owns the email service Gmail unlike Yahoo which operates Yahoo Mail. Apparently, under certain wiretapping laws, Google is not allowed to register advertisements around emails sent by non-Gmail users who are sending messages to [...]
While U.S. federal law prevents Google from being sued for defamation for content which are displayed by the tech giant’s search index, there seems to be no statute in Australia saving it at the moment. Google has just lost a defamation lawsuit in a court of law and it’s only good news to residents of [...]
Google has finally put a stop to challenging publishers in a court of law concerning its digital library. The new reaction from Google means that it will not introduce the works of publishers onto its online platform through scanning them without obeying certain rules. Google’s settlement will allow it to include the books of several [...]
According to news reports circulating the internet, the tech giant Google has been able to win its request for attorney fees in the intellectual property lawsuit Oracle waged against it a few months ago. Although Google which was the defendant, gets at least $1 million from Oracle due to the allegedly frivolous suit, the case [...]
It is now news that tech giant Google will have to fork out more than $22 million to the United States federal government for performing functions which enabled it to invade the privacy of internet users. The amount must be paid by Google due to its inability to respect the privacy of people who use [...]
Apart from being labeled as a copyright infringer in certain cases, Google also faces patent suits periodically. According to a new patent lawsuit by EMG Technology, Google infringes upon its U.S. Patent 7,441,196. This intellectual property case mainly concerns the Google Chrome mobile web browser service which has many users around the globe. Google is being [...]
According to a recent article from PCWorld.com, Google and Facebook are the two big tech companies tracking users of the internet. Consistent web users are tracked by both Google and Facebook in many unique ways everyday. Most users of Google products as Google Plus and Google Chrome are tracked by the company when they utilize [...]
The Ninth Circuit appears poised to rule in favor of UMG in the case which caused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor protections to be afforded Veoh a few months ago. The Veoh decision had helped Google and YouTube to win their copyright war against entertainment company Viacom. But according to reports, the [...]