July 09, 2019

Google suspends Trends emails after revealing murder suspect’s name

People subscribed to Google Trends in New Zealand were emailed the murder suspect's name in violation of a New Zealand court's order.

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March 20, 2017

Sweeping dragnet search warrant given the go-ahead by judge

Google says it will always 'push back' when asked for 'excessively broad requests for data'

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December 20, 2016

Lawmaker urges regulating Facebook and Google’s algorithms

Once again, lawmakers demonstrate profound lack of understanding of how the internet works

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August 25, 2016

Google to rate down sites with aggravating pop-up ads

Google's planning to penalize mobile sites that block content by placing those sites lower in site rankings.

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February 12, 2016

Google extends ‘right to be forgotten’ to all domains

Right to be forgotten material will no longer show up when somebody in France hops off Google's .fr domain, for example.

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February 02, 2016

Apple’s Siri finally stops sending abortion seekers to adoption centers

It’s taken over 4 years, but Siri has finally stopped sending people to adoption centers when they ask their iPhones where they can get an abortion.

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January 25, 2016

Has your sleeping baby been indexed by this search engine?

Shodan calls itself the world's first search engine for internet-connected devices. The top 3 searches: "webcam", "cams" and "netcam".

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December 29, 2015

Silk Road founder was tracked down by a Googling tax agent

Gary Alford, a special agent with the IRS, scoured old blog posts and chat room logs to eventually unmask Dread Pirate Roberts.

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September 16, 2015

Google found guilty of violating antitrust laws

Yandex - the "Google of Russia" - has prevailed in getting the country's antimonopoly watchdog agency to rule that Google has abused its dominant position in the market with Android.

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