Sources: CNN
Google-owned YouTube says that it has suspended U.S. President Donald Trump's account from uploading new videos or live streaming content for the next seven days, and may extend the suspension, saying that the channel had violated its rules over incitement to violence. 2021-01-13
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
The European Parliament passes a symbolic motion calling for the break-up of American tech giant Google. 2014-11-27
In Germany, a Hamburg court fines Google €145,000 for violating privacy laws with its Street View service. 2013-04-22
The social networking giant Facebook announces that it was the target of sophisticated hackers, who through a then-unknown bug from Oracle's Java on an infected website, managed to infiltrate employees' laptops, and then the internal networks. There was no user data collected, but certain code and corporate e-mails could have been exfiltrated. 2013-02-15
Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
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
A rally takes place outside Google's offices in the U.S. state of California against a proposal to change online data treatment. 2010-08-14