Google turns over Orkut data to Brazil authorities
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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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Google is working with mobile content providers on a search tool for cell phones.
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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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Google calls on governments and business to agree a set of global standards to protect internet privacy.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has developed new tools it says will make it easier for webmasters and publishers of news sites to control how the search engine indexes their content for inclusion in the Google News portal. As of Tuesday, publishers of English-language news sites indexed by Google News will be able to include them in Google's Webmaster Tools service . This means that publishers and webmasters will be able to specify through a site map the articles they want Google News to index. A site map is a file that webmasters and publishers put on their sites to guide search engines' automated Web crawlers in properly indexing their Web pages. Webmasters and publishers will also be able to see a list of their latest articles featured on Google News, as well as a list of indexing errors made by the automated Google crawler, so that the problems can be addressed. Previously, publishers' control over Google News' indexing was more rudimentary, limited mostly to including an instruction to prevent the crawler from accessing certain pages. Before launching the new site map tools, the company tested them with several news organizations, said Nathan Stoll, Google News product manager. Stoll said publishers had asked for more "transparency and control" of what content is indexed specifically by Google News Google News is a portal for news in which Google aggregates headlines, short text snippets and thumbnail pictures linked to the original articles on news organizations' Web sites.Â Google News is at the center of a lawsuit brought by the news agency Agence France Presse,Â which alleges copyright infringement from Google's inclusion of its material on the portal. Tuesday's announcement follows last week's news thatÂ Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. will support the open source, XML-based Sitemap Protocol. This protocol, which was developed by Google, will simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines. (Mike Barton is online editor of InfoWorld.) Â
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FRANKFURT/BOSTON  - Software maker SAP AG disclosed that a U.S. subsidiary made "inappropriate downloads" of data from rival Oracle Corp.'s Web site and said U.S. authorities asked it to hand over internal documents.
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The Internet giant balked when Brazilian authorities asked for data on suspect users of its social networking site. Privacy advocates are cheering
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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. Google's Orkut social networking site has come in for criticism and even litigation from groups in India that object to its depiction of India and Indian historic figures. The site also has fan clubs of Indian gangsters, and Indian police said these could be used to find new recruits. The reporting tool does not affect the way Google treats users' data but only enables faster, direct communication, a spokeswoman for Google said Tuesday. Â  The police will still be required to follow an appropriate legal process in order to get user-identifying information, she added. Some Indian newspapers and a TV channel have quoted a police official in Mumbai saying that Orkut agreed to provide the police with the IP address from which an objectionable message has been posted on the site and the ISP involved. The Google spokeswoman confirmed that the company's legal team met with police from various states in India but said there was no question of Google sharing IP addresses with the Indian police without the appropriate legal process being followed. The process for reporting objectionable material on Orkut remains the same, as do Google's own procedures for deciding whether or not to remove the material from the site, she added.
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Search giant Google and US Space agency Nasa sign an agreement to make space data available on the web
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Plus: Orkut: Google's secret society. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Google to give data to Brazilian court:report    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S.
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By CONSTANT BRAND  BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth 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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By Kevin J. O'Brien and Thomas Crampton  In the latest example of a U.S. technology giant potentially being called on the carpet in Europe, Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing data on its users for up to two years.
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of  international policymakers in France on Friday that national  regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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What's behind the latest privacy cockup? Google can count itself fortunate that a serious privacy storm it caused took place in the run up to Christmas - when world+dog was otherwise occupied. By altering the behaviour of one of its web-services, Google ran foul of its own Privacy guarantee - and continues to violate it.â¦
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Blog: In unprecedented decision, judge orders search engine to turn over user information stored in RAM.  Court allows IP addresses to be blacked out for now.