Two major changes potentially coming to EU’s Right to Be Forgotten with global implications

Authorities in France considering automatic delisting for “sensitive personal data” and forcing global index removal.

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Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content

Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers.

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Google receives search warrant for identities of everyone who searched crime victim’s name

If this overly broad warrant were duplicated in other jurisdictions, local law enforcement might use Google as a first stop in their investigations.

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Google’s top results for “Did the Holocaust happen” now expunged of denial sites

Initial fix merely bumped denial site down, then failed to work consistently. Now the denial site is gone from first page of results.

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Google creates its own antitrust woes with poor communication over search listings

Have an issue with your listings in Google? Getting an official answer might be tough. And when that happens to a Google competitor, as it did with ProtonMail, it could come back to harm Google’s defense from antitrust charges.

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Report: EU responding to Google antitrust search-quality defense with new objections

Supplementary statement reportedly being filed to enable European Commission to address Google’s defense against claims of abuse of market position.

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Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search

Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues.

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Mississippi attorney general’s “conspiracy to censor the internet” back on as appeals court rules against Google

Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association of America was using Mississippi attorney general’s action as a tool of its private interests in content takedowns.

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Streetmap Loses Anti-Competitive Lawsuit Against Google In UK

Streetmap had sued on grounds that putting Google Maps at the top of search results was an “abuse of competition.”

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Report: EU Preparing To File Formal Antitrust Charges Against Google

Company could face billions in potential fines, up to 10 percent of revenue.

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WSJ Report Suggests Intervention In FTC’s Google Investigation By White House

Article asserts Google lobbying affected agency’s decision in antitrust case.

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