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Google lays off hundreds of employees in its core engineering team, and others working on Google Assistant and Google's hardware products.
2024-01-11

Apple and Google reject an update by the National Health Service to their contact tracing app because it breaches their privacy rules.
2021-04-12

Alphabet Inc. announces Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who has been chief executive of Google-Alphabet since 2001, will step down in January 2018. Schmidt will continue to serve on Alphabet's board of directors.
2017-12-21

Negotiators for the European Commission and the United States agree on a pact protecting data transfers across the North Atlantic by companies such as Google and Amazon, imposing on such companies certain privacy shield obligations.
2016-02-2

Google removes a privacy feature from its Android mobile software, despite objections from groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2013-12-13

In Germany, a Hamburg court fines Google €145,000 for violating privacy laws with its Street View service.
2013-04-22

Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007–2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords.
2013-03-9

The "People's Daily", a Chinese stated-owned newspaper, accuses Internet search engine giant Google of becoming a "political tool" after it claimed that computer hacking aimed at it came from China.
2011-06-6

Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices.
2010-10-22

Google admits it has been mistakenly collecting information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks for the past three years and grounds its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information.
2010-05-15