Sources: BBC
Google settles a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on users using "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser, misleading users by implying their internet activities would not be tracked, while advertising technologies continued to collect information. 2023-12-30
Google and Cuba forge a deal about better access to the Internet for the island. 2016-12-13
Warner Brothers is accused of self-censorship after it tagged its own websites for copyright infringement through the search engine Google. 2016-09-6
The Solicitor General of the United States sides with Oracle in a much-watched copyright dispute with Google over Java APIs. 2015-05-28
The Chinese government blocks some of Google's Gmail services. 2014-12-29
Google allows users to communicate with each other on Google Plus even if they are not friends. 2014-01-10
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
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