Google Did Not Violate US Law When Collecting Wifi Data Google was fined $ 25,000 for not cooperating with an investigation regarding Google’s collection of unencrypted wifi data when taking Street View pictures from 2006-10, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported that Google did not violate any US laws. The FCC’s Report included this [...]

Cloud Wars – Google Beats Microsoft in Federal Bid War Google finally won a cloud war against Microsoft after years of battle and the US Department of Interior (DOI) will now deploy Google Apps for 90,000 employees instead of Microsoft Office 365. On January 3, 2011 US District Judge Susan Braden issued a temporary injunction [...]

Who Has the Dirtiest Clouds? Apple, Amazon, but not Google Greenpeace reported that cloud computing may be popular, but generally it’s not very clean and gave Apple Ds and Amazon Fs, while Google got the best grades. The Greenpeace report entitled “How Clean is Your Cloud?” made these observations about electrical consumption: The electricity consumption [...]

Google Apps Vault: Cloud eDiscovery at Per User Per Month Google Apps Vault costs an additional $ 5 per user per month. I think that roughly doubles the overall cost of Google Apps per user per month. But for compliance-conscious customers, that seems like a reasonable fee to me — assuming Google Apps Vault works [...]

March 31st edition of our “Top 20 +” e-discovery compendium >SPOTLIGHT: Google moves farther into the e-discovery market Our weekend edition of the “Top 20 … plus more” … a snapshot of some interesting e-discovery blog/web site posts, vendor news/views on a wide range of electronic discovery related issues, and other tech developments from the past week.    It is compiled by Master Sensei Social Media [...]

Should Anyone Expect Privacy on Google? Since 92% of adults use search engines every day means that they share volumes of information with Google, who dominates searching, 66.4% in the US and 80% in the EU. No one was surprised when Pew Research reported that 92% of adults search daily, but what Google does with [...]

EU to Google – Not so Fast with the new Privacy Policies! EU officials announced that the new Google Privacy Policies may not insure compliance with EU laws and asked Google to halt these changes pending an investigation of the implications of personal data protection. Google’s new Privacy Policies are scheduled to go into effect on [...]

New Legal Terms from Google Google recently announced revised Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy which go into effect on March 1, 2012. Google claims that the ToS were rewritten “to make them more readable and to reduce the repetition and legalese.” And with regards to the Privacy Policy Google stated: We’re getting rid of [...]

Privacy Update at Google and Microsoft Google has a team of 60 engineers, & Microsoft has 40 people, fully devoted to avoiding violation of privacy laws in the US and around the world. At a recent legal seminar executives from Google and Microsoft described how many resources they devote to privacy law compliance. Google’s senior [...]

Google Disclaims Any Relation with Carrier IQ Although Google’s Android smartphone operating system has been associated with Carrier IQ, Eric Schmidt (Google’s Executive Chairman) told an Internet freedom conference in the Dutch city of The Hague about Carrier IQ that "It’s a key-logger, and it actually does keep your keystrokes, and we certainly don’t work [...]