Topic: GOOGLE - on July 2, 2010 at 12:15:00 PM CEST
Turkey goes into battle with Google
Last month Turks found they could not access many Google services. YouTube is already banned. The BBC's Jonathan Head looks at this brewing battle between Turkey and one of the giants of the internet. Ataturk Mausoleum, Ankara Ataturk Mausoleum: Turkey bans abuse against its founding father
Sitting in an Istanbul cafe Ozan Tuzun taps away furiously on the keyboard of his laptop, trying to break the invisible walls that surround him.
"I'm going to DNS.com now to take one of their numbers… I enter it… no that didn't work. Right let's try to get a DNS from Google… no… ok we'll try Ktunnel…"
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Topic: GOOGLE - on July 2, 2010 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Google buys air fare data firm
Google last night splashed out $700m (£460m) on a specialist aggregator of airline flight information, ITA Software, in a venture into travel data that is likely to set off competitive alarm bells among many online booking agencies such as Expedia, Orbitz and eBookers.
Google announced that it was buying Massachusetts-based ITA in order to make it easier for users of its search functions to find quick information about convenient flights and airfares, describing the move as "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer".
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 10, 2010 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
Google is "almost certain" to face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, according to Privacy International (PI).
The search giant has been under scrutiny for collecting wi-fi data as part of its StreetView project.
Google has released an independent audit of the rogue code, which it has claimed was included in the StreetView software by mistake.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 8, 2010 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
We Don’t Need No Google! - Turkey bans use of Google, services
Turkey has imposed an indefinite ban on Internet search engine Google and many of its services citing “legal” reasons.
In an official statement, Turkey’s Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 5, 2010 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
As Google Hands Over Collected WiFi Data In Germany, France And Spain, Ireland Tells Google To Destroy It
We recently covered how the data that Google collected via its Street View WiFi efforts was caught in this weird legal limbo, between privacy laws, data retention laws and rules about destroying evidence. However, it looks like that's getting settled...
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 4, 2010 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
Google is 'close' to handing over German wi-fi data
Pressure is mounting over Google's wi-fi data capture
Search giant Google has said it is "close" to resolving issues that have prevented it from passing a hard disk of data to German authorities.
The disk contains wi-fi data Google Street View cars gathered by mistake.
Google is attempting to patent the very same wardriving technology the search giant says it used by mistake to snoop on Wi-Fi users in more than 30 countries, attorneys said Wednesday.
A patent application published in January describes a method devised by Google for gathering and analyzing data sent via wireless access points. The application says the device "may be placed in a vehicle and data may be obtained continuously or at predetermined time increments" and that the speed of the vehicle "may be factored into the analysis," according to lawyers suing Google on behalf of people whose traffic may have been collected by the technology.
Google looks set to gain a surprising ally in its battle against the European Commission to retain its search logs - the European Parliament.
The dominant search firm has been under pressure from Brussels to erase personally identifiable information from its logs after six months. So far Google has agreed to some anonymisation after nine months.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 30, 2010 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Google protokolliert für Polizei und Geheimdiensten weltweit
Google und Youtube speichern – wie fast alle US-amerikanischen Anbieter – jede Sucheingabe und jeden Klick des Nutzers in personenbezogener Form (IP-Adresse) monatelang auf Vorrat.
Erstmals räumt Google jetzt ein, dass es diese Daten auf Anfrage an Polizeien und Geheimdienste weltweit herausgibt, und zwar durchschnittlich
* 3mal täglich an deutsche Stellen
* 20mal täglich an US-amerikanische Stellen und
* 6mal täglich an britische Stellen.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 28, 2010 at 1:20:00 PM CEST
Google misses German regulator Street Car Wi-Fi data grab deadline
Google has failed to hand over some data it inadvertently collected from Wi-Fi networks to German regulators.
Earlier this month German prosecutors launched an investigation into the company’s interception of private Wi-Fi data, after Google admitted that its world-roving Street View cars had scooped up information sent over Wi-Fi networks, thereby contradicting previous assurances that no such data had been collected by its snoopmobiles.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Google gesteht Datenpanne bei Street View
Google selbst spricht von einem "sehr großen Fehler": Entgegen eigenen früheren Angaben hat der Suchmaschinenkonzern mit seinen Street-View-Autos doch Daten aus offenen W-Lan-Netzwerken aufgezeichnet - weltweit und über Jahre hinweg. Die Panne fiel erst dank einer Nachfrage aus Hamburg auf.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Google admits collecting Wi-Fi data through Street View cars
Google has been accidentally gathering extracts of personal web activity from private wifi networks through the Street View cars it has used since 2007, it said last night.
It was discovered as a result of a data audit demanded by Germany's data protection authority, and is likely to inflame critics of Google concerned about the web giant's use of private data.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 23, 2010 at 11:12:00 AM CET
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Google on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began directing users in that country to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 6, 2010 at 1:57:00 PM CET
Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas' - In Bid For Google's Fiber Optic Test Market
At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him.
But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month.
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