Google may leak personal data of Russians to Ukraine’s Security Service - reportYevgeny Fyodorov, lawmaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, claims that Google may leak personal data of Russian citizens to the Ukraine’s Security Service and wants the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the allegations.10:36 04.09.2014
EU citizens can now conceal their personal data from Google searchLast night, Google launched a new service for EU residents that allows concealing web pages with personal data from search results, AFP reports.11:00 30.05.2014
European Court to protect online users from search enginesIT companies operating search engines are responsible for dissemination of personal data that appear on third party websites and therefore must act upon requests to delete such data, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday.14:55 13.05.2014
Google appeals Turkish court’s decision to uphold YouTube ban – reportGoogle has turned to the Turkish courts to challenge the country’s block of YouTube that has been in place since March 27, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.16:26 07.04.2014
Google chief pens Daily Mail article vowing to fight child pornGoogle has put upwards of 200 people to the task of developing state-of-the-art technology aimed at tackling the problem of pedophilia on the Internet.14:45 18.11.2013
Google complies with Russian personal data protection policyGoogle has amended its Russian version of the confidentiality policy, to ensure better protection of users’ sensitive information, senator Ruslan Gattarov told the press on Monday.10:45 11.11.2013
Google says Gmail messages not privateGoogle has made it official, casually acknowledging what many people already knew or at least suspected: emails sent through its free Gmail service will be “processed” with no guarantee of privacy.12:21 15.08.2013
Google suspected of tax evasion in RussiaUS-based Internet giant Google is suspected of tax evasion in Russia, a senator in Russia’s upper house of parliament said Thursday. Ruslan Gattarov, head of the Information Society Committee, sent a letter on Thursday to the Federal Tax Service with a request to check the financial operations of Google AdSense advertising service.17:11 18.07.2013
MP requests inspection of Google's compliance with personal data protection lawsLawmaker Ruslan Gattarov, who heads the Federation Council's Information Policy Commission, believes that Google violates international and Russian law on personal data protection and has asked for this assumption to be checked.16:13 16.07.2013
Internet companies call for review of anti-piracy billRussian Internet companies have published an open letter against the anti-piracy bill, which the upper house of parliament approved on Wednesday.13:50 27.06.2013
Prosecutors urged to probe possible leaks of Russian data by Google, FacebookSenator Ruslan Gattarov has asked Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to look into possible leaks to US intelligence agencies of the personal data of Russian users through companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple.13:53 21.06.2013
Google Russia CEO denies giving US authorities direct access to serversGoogle does not provide any US government agencies or any other country's agencies with direct access to its servers, and any statements to the contrary are false, Kommersant business daily reports on Wednesday.11:22 19.06.2013
Google to invest $5 million to fight child porn on the WebGoogle will invest $5 million in an initiative to eliminate child pornography on the Internet, the company said in a statement. The funds will mainly be used to support organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Internet Watch Foundation.15:55 17.06.2013
Apple admits to receiving government requests for user informationApple reported that it has published its statistics regarding user data requests from the US secret services after similar moves by Microsoft and Facebook.13:41 17.06.2013
YouTube withdraws claim against regulator in "suicide videos" disputeGoogle's YouTube LLC has withdrawn the second suit it filed with the Moscow Commercial Court against the decision of consumer rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor to ban one of its videos for containing pro-suicide information10:41 05.06.2013
Google whistleblower offers evidence of tax avoidance – reportFormer Google manager turned whistleblower Barney Jones has evidence of the search giant’s “immoral” tax avoidance via upwards of 100,000 emails from his time spent working for the company, according to a report by The Sunday Times.10:22 20.05.2013
Google Glass under fire with US business owners over privacy issuesA plethora of US business owners are taking a stand against hot new tech product Google Glass. The central issue is the concern that wearers of Google Glass can record their audio and visual surroundings in a manner far more conspicuous than by use of a smart phone or standard video recorder.11:34 13.05.2013
YouTube files another lawsuit against consumer rights regulatorThe Moscow Commercial Court has accepted a lawsuit from YouTube LLC, owned by Google, against the Moscow branch of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), the court spokesperson told RAPSI, but did not specify the subject of the complaint.14:13 06.05.2013
YouTube vs consumer rights regulator case to continue on May 6The Moscow Commercial Court will resume the hearing of the YouTube LLC lawsuit against Rospotrebnadzor, the consumer rights regulator, on May 6.12:09 26.04.2013
Six EU countries take action against new Google privacy policyData protection authorities in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK launched actions disputing Google’s privacy policy in their respective jurisdictions Tuesday.19:56 03.04.2013