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Google's new privacy policies break EU laws

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • March 2 2012

Although Google claims its new Privacy Policy helps simplify privacy, the EU claims otherwise and specifically that the new Privacy Policy “makes it impossible to understand which purposes, personal data, recipients or access rights are relevant to the use of a specific service.”

EU to Google - not so fast with the new privacy policies!

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 5 2012

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

EU claims that Microsoft breached antitrust settlement agreement

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 17 2012

In 2009 Microsoft agreed to offer EU customers a browser choice of 12 options until 2014, but apparently Windows 7 released in February 2011 did not contain that option

EU court ruling protects social media site

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 16 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) refused to order a Social Media site to prevent the unlawful use of copyrighted works

Google's antitrust problems

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • November 29 2012

Recent reports indicate that the US and EU antitrust regulators are considering filing suits against Google, but not for control over the search engine market, which clearly Google controls

EU fines Microsoft $732 million for antitrust violation

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • March 8 2013

The EU Competition Commission concluded that Microsoft failed to comply with its 2009 agreement to offer browser choices to 15 million Windows

Cybercrime makes headlines again

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 18 2013

The EU is considering a plan to require Internet companies to report loss or theft of personal information. The New York Times reported that the new

Privacy update - EU launches enforcement against Google

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 3 2013

Google's March 2012 Privacy Policy has never been well-received in the EU, and after waiting for Google to change its Privacy Policy the EU now plans

Google now dealing with new EU antitrust complaint

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Just as Google proposed a settlement with the EU, on January 30, 2013 i-Comp filed a new complaint of antitrust charges about which Bloomberg

Google's Android operating system now target of EU antitrust charges

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 9 2013

FairSearch.org filed a complaint with the EU asserting that Google's use of the Android operating system dominates the mobile marketplace and is