Google’s Legal Woes Mount
Google, a company that many (myself very much included) consider the worldwide technology leader, has been increasingly making the headlines, but the news has not always good. Google’s computer systems have been targeted for cyberattacks, particularly a series of these attacks by the Chinese over the last two years or so. Then Google went head-to-head with the Chinese government over whether Google must provide information about Chinese dissidents’ use of its search engine and other services to this government. Most recently Google is facing an increasing amount of trouble concerning charges that in collecting information for various Google services, this technology giant massively infringed upon the privacy of individuals and organizations, and may have even broken national privacy laws. Read more…