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Google's latest (10th) transparency report indicates that the government demands for data are increasing in recent years. This report shows demands from government in the first six months of 2014, and the firm said that it includes demands made under the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and through National Security Letters (NSLs).
The entire patent seems to fit Google's recent claims that Chrome is critical for Google to maintain search dominance through its Chrome web browser and Chrome OS and was described as a tool to lock users to Google's search engine and – ultimately – its advertising services.
Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users, [1] censorship of search results and content, its cooperation with the Israeli military on Project Nimbus targeting ...
In September 2010, Google launched Google Transparency to share information about governments' and corporations' activities regarding information access and control. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] There are increasing instances across the world that involve censorship in Google, banning information from the general population. [ 26 ]
On 10 November 2010, the European Commission opened a formal investigation into Google's search practices. Despite pursuing negotiations with Google for commitments under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003 and despite being offered commitments by Google that ‘address the Commission's concerns’, [5] the Commission, allegedly under political pressure, [6] issued a Statement of Objections (SO) to ...
A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [5] Google is the most common recipient of geo-fence warrants and the main provider of such data, [4] [6] although companies including Apple, Snapchat, Lyft, and Uber have also received such warrants. [4] [5]
Google unveiled several new transparency measures on Thursday as the European Union’s (EU) landmark legislation overhauling rules for the digital landscape is set to go into effect Friday. The ...
On 7 December 2011, The Times of India revealed that the search engine Google was asked to remove around 358 items by the Government of India out of which 255 items were said to criticise the government as per a Google transparency report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 items from Orkut and 19 items from YouTube for the same ...