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Does the US government have the power to order American companies to hand over data stored on servers outside of the country? That's the question at the heart of a legal battle between Google and the FBI. A US judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States - even though a federal appeals court reached an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft.
Plouffe, 49, formerly President Barack Obama 's campaign manager, will end his day-to-day activities as adviser to Uber Technologies Inc., although he will remain a non-voting Uber board member. His involvement at Uber has diminished since former Google executive Rachel Whetstone was hired to lead the company's policy and communications divisions, Bloomberg News said Wednesday.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump, who faced fierce opposition from some Silicon Valley leaders during the election campaign, strove to assure the titans of tech on Wednesday that his administration is "here to help you folks do well."
Freed by security reforms adopted by Congress last year, Google yesterday published the redacted contents of eight National Security Letters it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2010 and 2015 requesting information on 21 user accounts. U.S. government agencies can use NSLs to request certain types of information about the activities of users of Internet services and other communication services.
Alphabet's Google is racing to hire more conservatives for its lobbying and policy arm, trying to get a foothold in President-elect Donald Trump's Washington after enjoying a uniquely close relationship with the administration of President Barack Obama. In the weeks since the Nov. 8 election, Google has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office, according to three lobbyists with knowledge of the matter.
A Clinton campaign aide says that a typo in a March 19 email sent to John Podesta is to blame for opening the campaign chairman's Gmail account up to Russian cyber hackers. The IT aide, Charles Delavan, tells The New York Times that his error - typing the word "legitimate" instead of "illegitimate" to describe a hacker's email - continues to haunt him.
Google Maps has the advantage of being around a lot longer than Apple Maps . Indeed, it was the default web mapping service for Apple users until iOS 6 debuted.
Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of "fake news" on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising. Google said it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, while Facebook updated its advertising policies to spell out that its ban on deceptive and misleading content applies to fake news.
New evidence appears to show how hackers earlier this year stole more than 50,000 emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, an audacious electronic attack blamed on Russia's government and one that has resulted in embarrassing political disclosures about Democrats in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election . The hackers sent John Podesta an official-looking email on Saturday, March 19, that appeared to come from Google.
Oracle has taken its bid for up to $9 billion in damages to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after a judge in a federal court in California recently struck down its bid for a retrial in a copyright infringement suit against Google over the use of Java code in the Android operating system. A jury had cleared Google of copyright infringement in May this year, upholding the company's stand that its use of 37 Java APIs in the Android mobile operating system constituted " fair use " under the Copyright Act, which allows copying of creative works under certain circumstances.
After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the bitter patent dispute between the world's two top smartphone manufacturers over the amount Samsung should pay Apple for copying the iPhone's distinctive look. The justices' ruling, due by the end of June, could have a long-term impact for designers and product manufacturers going forward because the Supreme Court, if it agrees with Samsung, could limit the penalties for swiping a patented design.
This Advisory briefly reports on some of the significant U.S. Supreme Court actions from January through June 2016 related to environmental and administrative law. We can also show you Legal Updates using the Google Viewer; however, you will need to be logged into Google Docs to view them.
Google omitted Donald Trump from the list of current active campaigns when internet users plug in the search term "presidential candidates." Google's search engine, the foundation of their business, includes a feature that triages certain browsing results to the top of the list.
The wildly successful release of Pokemon Go hasn't exactly been all fun and games. The new, "augmented reality" smartphone game, in which players try to capture cute digital monsters overlaid on real-world settings, has already spawned its share of problems and controversy.
The new algorithm gives users a list of related conditions when they search their medical symptoms. Google will also give an overview description for individual symptoms and self-treatment options, the tech giant explained in a blog post.
Democratic Candidate for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Californians at Los Angeles Mission College Culinary Arts Institute in Sylmar, California. Search engine giant Google is being accused of manipulating search results to in favor of Hillary Clinton, who is now the likely Democratic nominee for president.
A jury in federal court yesterday found that Google's use of Oracle's Java code and package names in its Android operating system is lawful under the principle of "fair use." Oracle, which filed suit against Google in 2010 after acquiring the Java software platform through its purchase of Sun Microsystems, is expected to appeal that decision.