Tag: search engines

As EU privacy regulators maintain their focus on search engines, Internet giant Google pushed for harmonisation of EU and global rules on data protection during the first meeting of a new European Commission expert group designed to review current legislation.

Searching on the Internet via a mobile phone poses higher privacy-related concerns than traditional computer-based queries, according to the Italian authority for the protection of personal data.

The EU institutions are stepping up their efforts towards stronger protection of personal data on the Internet and in relation to the use of new technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID).

If Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo ends up with an agreement between the boards of the two IT giants, competition authorities around the world will have a new complex Internet issue to deal with in addition to the proposed merger between Google and DoubleClick.

Costly legal disputes among online publishers and search engines about the use of content may soon be just a memory thanks to the new access protocol ACAP, a system endorsed by the European Commission which allows content permissions to be automatically communicated to middle-users, such as search engines.

A European project for an internet search engine to compete with US-based giants Google and Yahoo! suffered a setback as Germany withdrew its participation over a row with France on what the engine's main focus should be.