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This article discusses the problem going on between Google and Chinese authors because Google digitalizes their books without permission and copyright. It gives percentages of the violation of copyrights as well as numbers within the deal Google is offering.

"Last month, Google discovered that it had been the subject of a sophisticated attack on its computer systems, carried out by hackers in search of private data from more than 30 internet companies. Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies. In response, Google announced on Tuesday that it would stop censoring results on Google.cn - the Chinese version of its search engine - or, should Beijing oppose the move, cease operating in China altogether. "

As international students, I thought you might be interested in this this new service from Google. It's not wdely available yet but will be soon.

An organisation of more than 8,000 authors has accused Google of "massive copyright infringement," claiming that the internet search engine does not have permission to put its books in the public domain for commercial. This article includes comments from Google and which libraries have agreed. Discusses the issue thoroughly.

Google acknowledged Friday that it inadvertently collected private information from the Wi-Fi networks inside people's homes. Google isn't the only company that uses cars to photograph neighborhoods for its mapping service, but it acknowledged its vehicles also contain receivers that pick up Wi-Fi signals. The receivers were supposedly just collecting the names and addresses of Wi-Fi networks to use in mapping programs for smart phones.

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The battle between critics and supporters of Google's effort to create the world's largest virtual library intensifies.

Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Cutting Edge.

The Chinese novelist Mian Mian is suing Google for copyright issues after they digitalized her book without permission and take commercial for it. This is my stimulus article.

This article is about how Google Street View can invade policy and occasionally the blurring technology to promote policy sometimes fails.

Article is about face blurring technology in Google (based on alogartithms)

This is about how many users were surprised by the details of google street view (ex. image of cat). They believe this means they have to close blinds. Some license plate numbers were readable and illegal areas were photographed.

This article is about how a couple sued Google over photographing their private signs.

Google's description of how Street View works.

This article explains how certain street images have been pulled from Google because they respond to people asking for pictures to be removed. A solution mentioned is that they could take multiple sets of pictures on the day that they are taking them to ensure that they don't choose the offensive ones.

Facts about Google Street view, the cameras they use, etc.

According to this Guardian article, it seems the automatic speech-to-text-to-tweet feature was dropped for some reason and instead a team of people transcribe/translate into English and manually post with the #egypt hashtag. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/01/google-twitter-egypt?INTCMP=SRCH

Gives users the ability to see what information Google stores about them.