Google offers priority reporting to Indian police
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InfoWorld - Google has offered Indian police a special tool for priority reporting of objectionable material on its social networking site, Orkut.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A Brazilian judge has ordered   the local office of Web search company Google GOOG.O to   disclose the data of users of Google's social networking site   Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.
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Some parts of images of India found on Google Earth are to be blurred following security concerns.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Internet giant Google to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic.
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of European  policymakers in France on Friday that national regulators agree  on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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Google has provided Brazilian authorities with data about Orkut users in response to 30 court orders, according to company spokespersons, and it plans to respond to eight more orders before their deadlines expire.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is in talks with the Indian government to allay concerns that Google Earth may be jeopardizing Indiaâs security by showing high resolution images of Indian defense and other installations. âWe were pleased to have the dialogue, which was substantive and constructive but no agreements have been made," a spokeswoman for Google India said Monday. A Sunday report in The Times of India said that Google and the Indian government had arrived at an agreement to show âfuzzy, low resolution pictures and distorted building plansâ of installations that the Indian government considers sensitive. The Indian government has often expressed concern that the information provided on Google Earth could be misused by terrorists and Indiaâs enemies. The easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth can be misused by terrorists, India's President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said as early as 2005. Some of the developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen to provide such high resolutions maps, Kalam said. Internet companies like Google and Yahoo are strengthening their presence in India ahead of an anticipated boom in online users in the country. Google offers search in Indian languages, and recently launched its Google AdWords advertising program in the country. It also does research and development (R&D) from India. Googleâs Orkut social networking site has however come in for criticism and even litigation from groups in India that have objected to criticism on Orkut of India and Indian historic figures.
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When it comes to protecting the privacy of its users, Google Inc. ranks worse than any other Internet company, according to an interim report by Privacy International. The international watchdog group also accused Google of engaging in a smear campaign in response to its findings, and demanded an apology.
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Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.
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In time Google plans to add country-specific video rankings and comments.
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Google executives are taking a proactive stance when it comes to issues under consideration by U.S. lawmakers that could affect the Internet search engine.
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Virtual police officers will soon begin visible patrols on Chinese Internet sites to warn surfers they are being monitored, Beijing authorities said in comments published Wednesday.
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Google is proposing that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy.
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Google is giving readers of its Internet news service direct access to the original source of stories written by major world news agencies including AFP, the Internet search giant announced Friday.
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Google is being taken to task by a UK-based privacy group over its apparent lack of a commitment to the privacy of its users. However, the company is doing what it can do discredit the report.