Sources: BBC
Google's Russian subsidiary announces its intention to file for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize the company's bank account. 2022-05-18
The European Parliament approves two revisions to the controversial Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. One resolution includes new requirements aimed at making companies pay licensing fees to publications such as newspapers whose work gets aggregated by online services. The second revision makes online platforms such as Google, Facebook and YouTube liable for the content posted on their services, meaning that all content providers must get permission from rights holders before uploading copyrighted material of any kind. 2019-03-26
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 announces that it plans to shut down its Google Buzz social network. 2011-10-14
New research reveals Apple and Google are running their iPhone and Android software to build gigantic databases from owners' movements as governments move to investigate. 2011-04-22
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
China renews the internet content provider license for Google allowing it to continue operating in the country. 2010-07-9
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
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on China to investigate the cyber attacks on Google. 2010-01-21