5 posts and columns on representatives

France to Google: Your CEO Is a Hamster and Your "Rogue Street View Engineer" Smells of Elderberries

in News on March 21, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

It’s a pittance to Google, but the $142,000 fine France’s data privacy regulator slapped the company with today for inadvertently harvesting consumer data with its Street View cars does set something of a precedent. Meted out by France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, or CNIL, the sanction is the agency’s highest ever and the first penalty levied against Google for data collection practices that have drawn complaints from dozens of countries.
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Lawmakers Would Like a Word With Google's "Rogue" WiSpy Engineer

in News on February 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm PT

Add two more names to the growing list of lawmakers crying foul over the Google WiSpy debacle. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) urge the agency to conduct a full investigation into the inadvertent collection of user data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by Google’s Street View cars.

Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media

in Social on February 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Hearsay Labs today launched a social media platform for companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives, with existing customers such as Farmers Insurance, State Farm and 24 Hour Fitness.

Ring, Ring. Hi, It's Google

in News on December 23, 2010 at 9:33 pm PT

Google Inc., which helped popularize the idea of automated ad sales on the Web, has been quietly turning to an old-fashioned tool–phone calls–to compete in the hot market for local business advertising.

White House Launches Health-Care Response Site "Reality Check"

in News on August 11, 2009 at 8:20 am PT

President Barack Obama again took to the Web to spread his message, launching a new section of the White House’s site Monday to counteract some of the criticism of his plans for a national health-care system.