Sources: CNN
The European Union formally charges Google with antitrust breaches. 2015-04-15
The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document. 2013-06-6
Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
Major websites, such as Google, Facebook, and others, participate in World IPv6 Day. 2011-06-8
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 agrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network. 2011-03-31
China denies it is disrupting access to Google's email service in the country. 2011-03-22
New cables allege that the Communist Party of China was paranoid about the Internet with Li Changchun, the party's propaganda chief, stepping up pressure on Google after finding material critical of him in a search. The same source also claims that CCP is active in hacking against its rivals, especially the United States. 2010-12-4
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
Foreign journalists in China say their emails have been hacked, as Google pulls out of launching its Android mobile phones. 2010-01-19