Sources: CNN
The High Court of Australia rules that Google is not liable for defamatory material within hyperlinks that it serves as part of its search results. 2022-08-17
Apple Inc. and Google remove TikTok from their app stores in India after a high court in Madras ruled the app could expose children to sexual content and cyberbullying. 2019-04-16
Google artificial intelligence company DeepMind's AlphaGo program takes an unbeatable three to zero lead in a five-game Go match against grand master Lee Sedol. 2016-03-12
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 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+, 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
A US judge blocks an agreement between Google and publishers about efforts to digitize books online at Google Books. 2011-03-22
The U.S. state of Virginia is reported to be Googling "WikiLeaks" more than any part of the country. 2010-12-10
Google begins to phase out its support for Internet Explorer 6 after it was identified as a weak link in cyber attacks on the search engine. 2010-01-30