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Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2012-04-24 10:47
Compare Google's law enforcement record here with Google's public representations below to determine for yourself if they match up.
- "We're a law abiding company." Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, June 28, 2011, in The Daily Mail.
- "Google respects the law. We do not steal." Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, December 16, 2011, in the French paper Libération.
- "We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love." Google CEO Larry Page, in his 2012 Update from the CEO.
- Google's Corporate Credo: "Don't be evil. ...This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company." per Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Google's Founders IPO letter in 2004.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2012-04-09 11:50
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2012-03-27 19:37
To more easily understand how rapidly Google's dominance is spreading throughout the web ecosystem, please look at this one-page-graphic called "Google's Rapidly Spreading Dominance." As the old adage says, a picture is worth a thousand words.
This graphic is highly instructive because it indicates that naysayers, who are writing off Google+ as a viable competitor to Facebook, are doing so prematurely.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2012-03-14 18:39
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2012-03-07 14:15
See my Daily Caller Op-Ed: "EU Filling FTC Void of Google Law Enforcement."
The evidence is mounting that the European Union is stepping in to fill the void of FTC law enforcement concerning Google. Currently, EU law enforcement is confronting Google on at least three different major law enforcement matters, and in the U.S., the DOJ, State Attorneys General, and Congressional overseers have taken a consistent, bipartisan tough law enforcement approach with Google. However, this is in stark contrast to the FTC's consistently lax law enforcement record with Google.
For the full story and evidence click here.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2012-02-22 13:22
Since Privacy International ranked Google worst in the world for Privacy in its 2007 privacy survey for its unique “comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy,” Google has had at least 24 more public scandals/controversies over privacy/security.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2012-01-06 12:17
Google’s recent ~$1b 3-year deal with Mozilla for Google to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox browser users, which comprise over a quarter of the global browser/search market, has much broader and more serious antitrust implications for Google’s already very tenuous antitrust situation than most everyone appreciates.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2011-11-15 12:19
In compiling and ranking the top threats facing Google, I was amazed at the breadth, depth, diversity and seriousness of the threats and liabilities facing Google.
Please see my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here to learn the ranking of what threats to Google are most serious and why.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2011-11-09 09:54
Google opposes the Senate PROTECT IP Act and the House SOPA bill because these anti-piracy bills expose Google's substantial piracy liability.
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here on "Google's Piracy Liability."
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2011-10-24 11:26
Reports that Google is involved in financing a potential buyout offer of Yahoo’s core business indicate Google is playing with antitrust fire.
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here to learn why.
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