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Apple and Google reject an update by the National Health Service to their contact tracing app because it breaches their privacy rules.
2021-04-12

Google announces that it is shutting down its Google+ network for consumers after seven years due to "very low usage" and a software error, first reported by "The Wall Street Journal", that potentially exposed the data of 500,000 users. Google+ will fully shut down in August 2019.
2018-10-8

Austrian privacy organization NOYB files complaints to regulators in four EU countries alleging that Facebook, Google, Instagram, and WhatsApp are violating the GDPR.
2018-05-25

The European Union accuses Google of abusing the dominance of its Android by preloading its own apps.
2016-04-20

French regulator Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) rejects Google, Inc.'s appeal of their order that the company remove 'Right to be forgotten (RTBF)' search results worldwide. Failure to comply could subject Google to sanctions, from €300,000 (US$460,000) to 5 percent of global operating costs.
2015-09-21

Chinese technology company Lenovo buys Motorola Mobility from Google for $3 billion to create its own mobile device unit.
2014-01-30

Google wins a copyright case in the German Bundestag over whether they can put news stories on their website without having to pay.
2013-03-1

Major websites, such as Google, Facebook, and others, participate in World IPv6 Day.
2011-06-8

Google claims that its Chinese Internet search and mobile search is blocked.
2010-07-29

Google says it may end its operations in China as it is no longer willing to continue censoring its search results.
2010-01-12