Google Dashboard Offers New Privacy Controls

Nov 5, 2009 at 5:15am ET by Matt McGee

Google has launched a new privacy dashboard -- technically just called Google Dashboard -- that gives users quicker access to, and more control over, the personal information stored in Google's databases. The dashboard is a one-stop shop for managing this data and the settings that are associated with the Google products you use when signed in to your Google account. "We recognize how important our users' trust is, so we're looking for ways to be more transparent," says Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google's Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety. "Over the last 11 years we've launched a [...]

Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Dashboard, Legal: Privacy, Top News

Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site

Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04pm ET by Matt McGee

Oh, the irony: The People's Daily, the main newspaper of China's Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware warning to search result listings for the newspaper's book section. The paper says the malware warning appeared after it ran an article about a Chinese group that has suggested Google's book search settlement might violate the rights of Chinese authors. The paper says the malware warning appeared for three days, and claimed that its book section was "maliciously blocked by Google." Google called the claims "absolutely incorrect" and pointed out that i [...]

Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Outside US, Legal: Censorship

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism

Oct 3, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Danny Sullivan

Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Nor does he want it to be. In a long interview about his company's relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it clear he wants established players to survive. In fact, he thinks Google has a "moral responsibility" to help. But help doesn't mean a handout. I spoke with Schmidt on the topic about two weeks ago in his office at Google. In summary, he felt that Google takes most of the blame for the internet as a whole, in how it has changed news reading habits that have impa [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Features: General, Google: Critics, Google: General, Google: News, Top News

Google Book Search Settlement: What Will Happen Now?

Sep 25, 2009 at 10:25am ET by Greg Sterling

Judge Denny Chin of the US District Court, who is presiding over the Google Book Search Settlement and was prepared to approve it until legions of opponents came forward, summarizes the dilemma facing all interested parties in his recent order (via the NY Times), taking the impending October 7 final settlement hearing off the calendar: The current settlement agreement raises significant issues, as demonstrated not only by the number of objections, but also by the fact that the objectors include countries, states, nonprofit organizations, and prominent authors and law professors. Clearly, fair [...]

Filed in: Google: Book Search, Google: Critics

Google And Newspapers Continue Their Ambivalent Courtship

Sep 10, 2009 at 9:07am ET by Greg Sterling

Ambivalent is word that best describes newspaper publishers' relationship with Google and Google News in particular. Some publishers see Google as a partner or potential partner and some consider Google to be the devil incarnate, responsible for virtually all their woes. For its part Google sees itself as a supporter of newspapers, helping them by driving traffic to their sites and potentially developing a payments platform that can better help them monetize their content in the coming return to pay walls. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has spoken out publicly many times in support of the role and [...]

Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: News

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