News stories tagged with Google

EPIC: FTC has to stop Google’s privacy policy change

EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, based in the US, has sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an attempt to compel the FTC to act prior to 1 March, when Google plans to make changes to its terms of service so that individuals...

Google’s new privacy policy criticised by national DPAs in the EU

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President of France's Data Protection Authority, the CNIL, on behalf of the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, says that Google’s new privacy policy does not meet the requirements of the EU Data Protection...

UK ICO says Google may be in breach of its Street View Undertaking

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today that Google has now confirmed it still has some additional payload data from the UK and other countries collected by its Street View cars prior to May 2010. Google said in 2010 that it...

Google fined $22.5m for monitoring of web surfing

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed its biggest ever fine on Google. Users of Apple’s Safari browser who had a "do not track" privacy setting selected were still being monitored, according to the FTC. According to the FTC’s complaint...

EU DPAs ask Google to upgrade its Privacy Policy practices

Google’s controversial changes introduced in March to its European privacy policy have again been met with resistance by the EU Data Protection Authorities. The DPAs says that Google's privacy policy provides incomplete information and makes...

Google's civil penalty of $22.5 million now confirmed

A US federal judge in San Francisco on 16th November approved  the $22.5 million civil penalty imposed on Google, reports Associated Press. This penalty was announced in August as a settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Google...

EU DPAs warn Google about enforcement action

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The EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) are to decide in their meeting on 26 February about starting joint enforcement action against Google for the faults  in the company’s new Privacy Policy. The DP Commissioners aim to establish a working...

Hamburg's DPA fines Google for Street View

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The German city state of Hamburg has today issued a fine of 145,000 euros on Google for its data collection during Street View operations. The DPA says that the company collected personal data during 2008-2010 through unencrypted Wifi connections....