Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results
The recording industry considers filing a lawsuit against Google for allegedly abusing its dominant market position to distort the market for online music. Industry groups including IFPI and the RIAA want Google to degrade links to “pirate” websites in its search results. IFPI has obtained a “highly confidential and preliminary legal opinion” to see if they can force Google to step up its anti-piracy efforts though a lawsuit.
Source: Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results
Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites.
Source: Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
Google’s Privacy Policy Change: Initial Thoughts, Broader Issues
1/25/2012
Author:
Erica Newland
Consumer Privacy
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ACLU Lens: Google’s New Privacy Policy
Google is following you.
Yesterday evening, Google announced a new privacy policy effective March 1. The new policy is consistent across the vast majority of Google products, and it’s in English; you don’t have to speak le…
Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (1/13/2012)
In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and sending e-mail, the things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails of pers…
Keeping "Your World" Private: Turning off Google’s New Private Search Results
Want to keep your information private now that Google has started rolling out “Search, plus Your World,” a new search results format? For those signed-in with a Google account, the new feature combines search results from the public web…
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed.
Source: Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Free Speech Takes a Beating
The odds were stacked from the beginning at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Six witnesses were slated to testify and only one, Katherine Oyama, policy counsel for Google, was there t…
Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (11/18/2011)
In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and sending e-mail, the things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails o…
U.S. Continues to Blow Away the Field in Demanding Information from Google
We know that the government takes advantage of outdated privacy law to demand our personal information from online services that collect and hold our data. But what we rarely know is exactly how often this happens: the government isn’t required t…
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