Google Europe Policy Blog
googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
Google's official policy blog for Europe, covering privacy, the right to be forgotten, Street View, antitrust cases, and news publishers.
What HN saysHN links it as Google's primary source on EU disputes, including Google News in Spain, the right to be forgotten, and AMP. Commenters give no verdict.
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- 1How many German households have opted-out of Street View?3 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Google rejects France's demands for a global right to be forgotten2 people · 22 points · first shared 2015 · 13 comments on HN
- 3Google News to shut down in Spain1 people · 369 points · first shared 2014 · 259 comments on HN
- 4It’s time to extend the US Privacy Act to EU citizens1 people · 127 points · first shared 2014 · 101 comments on HN
- 5Dear Rupert1 people · 109 points · first shared 2014 · 53 comments on HN
- 6Teaming up with Oxford University on Artificial Intelligence1 people · 59 points · first shared 2014 · 20 comments on HN
- 7Google's Answer to EU Antitrust Complaints on Android1 people · 44 points · first shared 2016 · 63 comments on HN
- 8Google News shuts down in Spain after new law1 people · 10 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Google calls bullshit on newspapers who say they don't want to be indexed1 people · 8 points · first shared 2009 · 3 comments on HN
- 10We built Google for users, not websites1 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · 7 comments on HN
- 11Remembering Ferranti Atlas: the UK’s first supercomputer1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Fighting against a censorship machine (Google Blog)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Accelerated Mobile Pages Project by Google1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14EU opens antitrust probe against Google1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Figuring out the value of the web1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
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pranaya_gh · 2015-10-07
Google says these will be the areas of focus on the AMP project: (from http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2015/10/introducing-amp-project…
1)Content: Publishers increasingly rely on rich content like image carousels, maps, social plug-ins, data visualizations and videos to make their stories more interactive and stand out.
2)Distribution: Publishers want people to enjoy the great journalism they create anywhere and everywhere, so stories or content produced in Spain can be served in an instant across the globe in say Chile.
3)Advertising: Ads help fund free services and content on the web.
It looks like google is encouraging publishers to join its initiative in the same way how it herded everyone to get "responsive".
SyneRyder · 2016-08-27
It's a relative thing - I know most Germans don't see themselves as privacy-minded, but the bar is so low everywhere else that the little things in Germany add up & make it stand out.
One example is browsing Google Street View and seeing how many buildings & houses are blurred out in Germany due to people sending privacy requests. I don't think I've ever seen that in Australia, but I keep encountering it when planning my trips to Germany. 3% of Germans opted-out of their house being included in Street View - a low percentage of Germans, but still crazy high compared to the rest of the world:
https://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-many-german-househ…
ikeboy · 2015-08-10
I don't think Google would particularly care if they only needed to censor French connections . They're clearly understanding it as a global demand. See http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2015/07/implementing-european-n…
>We believe that no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access.
Additionally, if this was all a misunderstanding, I believe it would have been cleared up by now, so the fact that nothing like that has come out in the last ten days tells me that they did understand correctly.
medecau · 2014-12-14
It'll happen 16th December 2014.
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.pt/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news…
throwaway_yy2Di · 2014-06-17
That's actually what StreetView is required to do in Germany:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/germanys-complicated-relation…
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-many-german-househo…