Last month, Google announced that it would begin integrating user data across all its services and create a single privacy policy that users would automatically agree to for all its services whenever they used any single Google service. European regulators on Feb. 2nd asked Google to hold off implementing the policy until they had a [...]
Now, Google is hardly alone in abusing patents, but a German high court’s ruling against Motorola shows that Google is just adding to the list of its monopoly abuses by playing the patent abuser game. The ruling stemmed from Google demanding that companies either pay an absurdly high patent license fee — in this case [...]
AT&T is discussing the possibility of letting app creators pay to let wireless users bypass data caps when using particular app services. De facto, app makers could use payments from users — or revenues from ads generated by those users — to cover the data costs. Groups like Public Knowledge are complaining about the possible [...]
In a letter sent to Google Chief Executive Larry Page, more than 30 state attorneys general wrote that the new Google policy of consolidating user personal information across all Google services “is troubling for a number of reasons.” In condemning the policy, the state AGs join European privacy regulators in seeing the move by Google [...]
Given the constant variations on Google violating user privacy, this newest breach is so deceptive and in fact targeted some users who had specifically opted out of tracking, so it is indeed a new low in deceptive violations of privacy by the company. According to Information Week: Google has conceded that it used secret programming [...]
Last week, the big news was Google’s use of Motorola’s patents to begin demands from other companies for licensing fees– as much as 2.25% of every iPhone or other device price. That adds up to Apple paying Google a billion dollars a year for example. Now, all the firms are using patents as weapons and [...]
From yesterday at the Electronic Privacy Information Center web site. EPIC today filed a Complaint and a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction in Federal District Court in Washington, DC. EPIC is seeking to compel the Federal Trade Commission to act prior to March 1, when Google plans to make changes in its [...]
Following a vote by Brooklyn Cablevision workers voting to form a union, about 120 workers at a Cablevision contractor in the Bronx walked off the job in a wildcat strike last Thursday. The vote by 282 technicians and dispatchers working for Cablevision in Brooklyn is the first time workers at the cable company have successfully [...]
On Friday, the chairman of the Article 29 Working Party, made up of data protection authority reps from each EU member state, sent a letter to Google asking them to “pause” their roll of new integrated privacy policies across their products while the EU determine “possible consequences for the protection of the personal data of [...]
