LE FIGARO : La vice-présidente de la Commission européenne Margrethe Vestager s'attaque à l'empire du géant américain dans les technologiques publicitaires.
Bruxelles attaque Google en plein cœur de son modèle économique. Ce mercredi 14 juin en milieu de journée, Margrethe Vestager, la vice-commissaire de la Commission européenne, chargée des questions de concurrence, a annoncé le dépôt d'une plainte contre le géant américain pour abus de position dominante dans le domaine de la publicité en ligne. «Nous craignons que Google n'ait illégalement distordu la concurrence dans l'industrie de l'adtech», a-t-elle martelé lors d'une conférence de presse. » | Par Claudia Cohen | mercredi 14 juin 2023
Google’s Online Advertising Practices Violate Antitrust Laws, E.U. Says: European Union regulators filed new antitrust charges against Google, which could lead to fines and orders for the company to change its business practices. »
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Sunday, November 26, 2017
Inside Story: Can Online Content Be Policed?
The Times investigation found there were many videos of pre-teen girls, which were then liked and commented on by hundreds of paedophiles. One such clip of a young girl drew 6.5 million views. Several companies including chocolate-maker MARS and Deutsche bank have pulled their ads from YouTube.
The newspaper said the site had allowed sexualised imagery of children to be easily searchable. It also criticised the company for not monitoring its content. So, will YouTube do more to monitor and remove certain content?
Presenter: Laura Kyle | Guests: Nishanth Sastry - Senior Lecturer in Informatics at King's College London; Susan Rose - Marketing and Reputation Expert at Henley Business School; Aral Balkan - Who describes himself as a "cyborg" Rights Activist
Friday, September 15, 2017
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Friday, August 11, 2017
'I'm Not a Sexist': How an Ex-Google Employee Became a Right-wing Star
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Friday, July 04, 2014
Now Google BANS Express Story about George Osborne’s ‘Muslim’ Brother
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| The article detailed how Dr Osborne had converted to Islam to marry his then wife |
Express.co.uk was today informed that an article published about Dr Adam Osborne on December 7, 2009, has been removed from Google’s search listings.
The 300-word piece detailed how the Chancellor’s younger brother, now 38, had converted to Islam in preparation for his marriage to Bangladeshi-born Rahala Noor, his plastic surgeon girlfriend of 14 years.
The article explained he had been studying the Koran and was praying five times a day and had been given the name Mohammed for the ceremony.
The piece, which did not allow reader comments, still exists on Express.co.uk.
However, it does not appear on Google when a user searches for ‘George Osborne, brother, Islam, Express’ or any variation of those terms.
Bizarrely, the original story, which had been broken by the Mail on Sunday in much greater depth the day before, still appears on Google’s results for MailOnline.
Versions of the article by the Daily Mirror, the Independent and other newspapers also still appear. » | Ted Jeory & Dion Dassanayake | Thursday, July 03, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Selon Google, la Turquie a pénétré son système d'adresses
Ankara a pénétré le système d'adresses de Google, affirme le géant de l'internet.
Google a reçu «plusieurs informations crédibles et a confirmé par (ses) proches recherches que le service DNS (Domain Name System) a été intercepté par la plupart des fournisseurs turcs d'accès à internet», a écrit ce week-end sur le blog de sécurité de Google l'un de ses ingénieurs, Steven Carstensen. » | afp/Newsnet | lundi 31 mars 2014
Saturday, February 08, 2014
Google s'immisce dans le débat sur la législation anti-gay en Russie
C'est un doodle politiquement engagé. Le moteur de recherche Google célèbre vendredi l'ouverture des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de Sotchi en affichant sur sa page d'accueil un logo aux couleurs du drapeau arc-en-ciel de la communauté gay. Chaque case comprend une lettre, une couleur et une discipline sportive représentée à ces JO d'hiver. En dessous, Google a repris un extrait de la Charte olympique: «La pratique du sport est un droit de l'homme. Chaque individu doit avoir la possibilité de faire du sport sans discrimination d'aucune sorte et dans l'esprit olympique, qui exige la compréhension mutuelle, l'esprit d'amitié, de solidarité et de fair-play». » | Par lefigaro.fr | vendredi 07 février 2014
Saturday, June 15, 2013
MAIL ONLINE: Survey shows only 2 per cent think society should accept homosexuality / Google gives Pakistan a 100 rating in trends analysis of internet searches
Pakistan has the highest volume of internet searches for gay pornography despite being one of the least tolerant countries when it comes to homosexuality.
The most searches for terms related to same-sex acts came from a conservative stronghold, the city of Peshawar, rather than major cosmopolitan cities such as Lahore and Karachi, according to analysis of Google trends by Mother Jones.
Pakistan was given a rating of 100 by the search engine for having the highest search traffic for the pornography terms.
Gay sex is illegal in the Islamic country and carries a sentence of two to ten years in prison if caught.
This week, the Pew Research Center revealed figures for the places that are most intolerant of homosexuality from a survey of 39 countries.
Only two per cent of Pakistanis surveyed said 'yes' to the question: 'Should society accept homosexuality?' » | Daily Mail Reporter | Saturday, June 15, 2013
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Monday, October 15, 2012
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A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London today is just the first in an orchestrated attempt to force the company to remove an anti-Islamic film from website YouTube in Britain.
Thousands had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow to take part in the demonstration, ahead of a planned million-strong march in Hyde Park in coming weeks.
Anger over 'The Innocence of Muslims', an American-produced film which insults the Prophet Mohammad and demeans Muslims, according to protesters, remains available to watch on the website YouTube, a subsidiary of Google.
Organiser Masoud Alam said: "Our next protest will be at the offices of Google and YouTube across the world. We are looking to ban this film.
"This is not freedom of expression, there is a limit for that. This insult of the Prophet will not be allowed.
The group's next action was a march Mr Alam hoped would be "a million strong" would take place in Hyde Park "in the next few weeks", he said.
"Until it is banned we will keep protesting," he added. » | Jennifer O'Mahony | Sunday, October 14, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Google removed 640 videos from YouTube in the second half of last year amid fears they promoted terrorism.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) made a request for five user accounts to be closed for allegedly promoting terrorism.
Google agreed and deleted the 640 videos.
The web giant has previously been criticised by politicians in Britain and the United States for hosting extremist propaganda on YouTube, its video sharing website, including as the sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior al-Qaeda cleric, who killed by a US drone strike last year.
Awlaki’s online sermons inspired Roshonara Choudhry, 21, to become the first al-Qaeda fanatic to attempt a political assassination in the UK when she stabbed MP Stephen Timms at his constituency surgery in May. » | Monday, June 18, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Having created one of the titans of cyberspace, which helps to run the lives of billions, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt may well regard themselves as masters of planet Earth. Google's mega-rich founders have built a global empire worth over £120bn by channelling unimaginable volumes of information to our cherished laptops, smartphones and tablets.
But it seems that, for Page and Schmidt, the world is no longer enough. The pair are now staking a claim for galactic domination by backing a plan to mine asteroids. Google's chief executive and executive chairman are named as key players in Planetary Resources Inc, which appears set to go boldly where no magnate has gone before. » | Michael Howie | Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A Frenchman took Google to court on Thursday over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France.
The man, who is aged around 50 and lives in a village of some 3,000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region, is demanding the removal of the photo, in which locals have recognised him despite his face being blurred out.
He also wants 10,000 euros in damages. » | Friday, March 02, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Google 'sneaking away citizens' privacy' says EU commissioner: Google is "sneaking" citizens' privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties, the European commissioner of justice has said. ¶ Viviane Reding delivered a stinging rebuke to Google over changes to its privacy policy, saying she had doubt over whether it was legal. ¶ Warning that "we aren't playing games here", she said that the obligation to protect personal data formed a key plank of European treaties. ¶ She said that if people gave up their privacy it should be a decision they make with all the facts made available to them and not by a company acting in a "sneaking" way. » | Christopher Williams and Andrew Hough | Friday, March 02, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
He reportedly cheated on his wife with at least three other women.
But now Eric Schmidt’s infidelity could cost him dearly amid claims he is heading for a divorce costing up to $1.5billion - the second most expensive in history.
The Google executive chairman is planning to sell 2.4million of his shares in the company to help pay for his split with wife Wendy as he continues a year and half long liaison with Manhattan beauty Lisa Shields.
Schmidt is looking towards a ‘transition and an amicable separation and settlement’ with the mother of his two children, but needs the extra cash to pay for it according to the New York Post.
If it all goes to his wife it would mean Schmidt, the 136th richest man in the world, would be giving away a quarter of his $6.2billion fortune to Wendy, to whom he has been married for 13 years. » | Daniel Bates | Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Prof Jeffrey Rosen, writing in the Stanford Law Review, claims that proposals from Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding “could transform Google, for example, into a censor-in-chief for the European Union, rather than a neutral platform”. He said that rather than perform such a role, the search giant was more likely to simply produce blank pages for certain search results.
The current European proposals seek to harmonise laws across the 27 EU nations and will force sites to delete information shortly after consumers request it be removed. If they do not comply, a fine of up to two per cent of a firm’s global turnover could follow.
Matthew Newman, Reding’s spokesman, told the Telegraph it simply aggregates existing rights to get data deleted from servers in a “timely manner”. But he says it also means individual EU information commissioners could arbitrate when, say, a user posts a controversial picture online of someone else and refuses to take it down when the subject asks.
Reding herself insists: “The right to be forgotten has nothing to do with journalists, nothing to do with the work of bloggers, nothing to do with tweeters – it’s about when you entrust information to a company. Because freedom of expression is very important we have also to take this into account.”
Prof Rosen argues that the fear of fines will have a chilling effect, and that it will be hard to enforce across the internet when information is widely disseminated. Read on and comment » | Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor | Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
RT: In a move that has triggered outrage, Google has announced plans to bring all data collected from users’ separate accounts on its sites into a combined profile. Besides raising dubious questions about privacy, this offer is one you… cannot refuse.
The changes will take effect on March 1. Before that date, Google will notify its hundreds of millions of users about the new rules of the game. In preparation, the company is boosting its privacy policy and terms of service. Users will have to decide whether to agree with the new terms – or lose access to some of their favorite sites. There is no way of opting out of the changes.
Some say Google’s privacy announcement is frustrating and a little frightening."Even if the company believes that tracking users across all platforms improves their services, consumers should still have the option to opt out,” said Common Sense Media chief executive James Steyer, as cited by the Washington Post.
Google says the new policy reflects a “desire to create a simple product experience” that does what one needs, when one needs it. The changes, apparently, will also allow Google to offer more new services and other “cool things.” » | Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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