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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).
Google has also been implicated in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, a case before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's national court) and the European Court of Justice, which required Google to comply with the European privacy laws (i.e., the Data Protection Directive) and to allow users to be forgotten when operating in the ...
Google voluntarily removed links from google.ca, the main site used by Canadians, but the court granted a temporary injunction applying to all Google sites across the world. [45] Google argued that Canadian law could not be imposed across the world but was given until June 17, 2014, to comply with the court's ruling.
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 ...
Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API , on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.
In April 2016, the Campaign for Accountability launched the Google Transparency Project, a website on Google's "influence on government, public policies, and our lives." [ 17 ] Funding for the project, and for the Campaign, was not disclosed, but in August 2016 Ken Glueck of Oracle confirmed that Oracle, who had been conducting a high-profile ...
An example of content censored by law is the removal of web sites from Google search results that deny the holocaust, which is a felony under German law. According to the Google Transparency Report, the German government is frequently one of the most active in requesting user data after the United States.
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 ]