Tech Progress

Euro regulators asked Google to hold off on implementing its new privacy policy.  Google ignored the request, so regulators are now drilling down in an investigation of whether the policy violates European privacy laws and regulations. Acting on behalf of the European network of data protection authorities, the French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des [...]

We seem to be having two debates about Google— on the cultural side, the question is whether the company violates user privacy too much and, on the business side, is Google a monopoly threat in the marketplace? But these are not separate issues at all. Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not create Google because [...]