الهند تتقدم بشكوى ضد برنامج "غوغل ماب ميكر" للخرائط

تقدم المعهد الجغرافي الوطني الهندي بشكوى ضد عملاق الانترنت الاميركي غوغل اثر مسابقة اجراها الموقع مؤخرا حول تطبيقها للخرائط "ماب ميكر"، وفق ما اعلن مسؤول كبير.
ونظم عملاق الانترنت الاميركي هذه المسابقة بعنوان "ماباثون 2013" خلال شهري شباط/فبراير واذار/مارس الماضيين، وقضت بارسال المستخدمين الهنود تفاصيل بشأن المطاعم، والمستشفيات والمحال التجارية مرفقة بعناوين واسماء الشوارع باستخدام خدمة "غوغل ماب ميكر" للخرائط.
وقال ار سي بادهي المسؤول الكبير في المعهد الجغرافي لوكالة فرانس برس ان المعهد تقدم بشكوى الاسبوع الماضي ضد شركة "غوغل الهند" التي تتخذ من نيودلهي مقرا لهان بسبب الخطر المحتمل لهذه المسابقة على امن البلاد.
واضاف بادهي "لقد تقدمنا بشكوى ضد غوغل لان مسابقتها +ماباثون 2013+ تتعارض مع القوانين الهندية او سياستنا الوطنية حول الخرائط، ولهذا الامر عواقب وخيمة على الامن". واشار الى ان مستخدمي التطبيق بامكانهم ارسال معلومات حساسة تكشف تفاصيل حول منشآت امنية او مراكز دفاعية محتملة.
واشار الى انه "من غير المسموح نشر خرائط جغرافية على الانترنت بواسطة اي بيانات كانت من دون الحصول على موافقة السلطات الحكومية المختصة".
الا ان بادهي اكد انه لم ير اي خرائط على غوغل لعناوين او منشآت حساسة.
وفي بيان تسلمت وكالة فرانس برس نسخة منه، اشارت "غوغل الهند" الى انها نظمت هذه المسابقة لتشجيع الهنود على استخدام تطبيق "ماب ميكر" الذي تم اطلاقه في العام 2008 في البلاد.
واوضح البيان ان "السلطات الهندية، وزارة العلوم والتكنولوجيا وكذلك المسؤول في المعهد الجغرافي، احيطوا علما بهذه الخريطة التي تحترم كل القوانين المرعية الاجراء".
واضافت غوغل "نتعاطى بجدية كبيرة مع مستلزمات الامن والقوانين الوطنية، ومنفتحون على كل النقاشات بشأن المشاكل المحددة مع السلطات العامة".
من جانبه اكد مسؤول في شرطة العاصمة لفرانس برس ان الشرطة تلقت بالفعل شكوى، الا انها لم تسجل اي محضر فيها، وهي الخطوة الاولى في اي قضية جرمية.
وفي السابق، واجهت غوغل مشاكل مع السلطات الهندية خصوصا بشأن برامجها للخرائط.

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After Google announced of its intentions to publish DMCA notices (within the frames of a program called Google Transparency Report), the company found itself overwhelmed with an unprecedented number of requests.

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Local media suggest that the company’s financial printer has accidentally published a draft version of its third-quarter earnings online. The search giant was expected to publish its financial report only after the markets closed.

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Now the flaw has already been patched and the search giant announced a new version of Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux at their official website. The company confirmed that it was proof of the need of the hacker competition. In the post on its

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The software giant appears to become censorship crazy – it is asking the search engine to remove links to news content. Microsoft has been dashing off censorship request to Google to remove BBC, Wikipedia, and CNN stories.

The number of DMCA takedown requests issued by the rights owners has rocketed within the last period and it seems that some of them are abusing the process. Actually, they may do it not on purpose: a lot of copyright owners prefer using automated systems to warn the search engine and other portals of the copyright violations, but this method doesn’t always work properly.

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After all, the Brazilian department of Google had to obey a court order and delete a video against a mayor candidate from YouTube. In the meantime, Fabio Coelho, local Google director-general, claimed that he was very disappointed to be refused to openly

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Local elections court ordered the arrest of the search engine’s most senior executive in Brazil after he refused to remove YouTube videos that attacked one of the mayoral candidates.

This wasn’t the first case of this kind. Earlier, a similar decision was delivered by another local election judge who decided that another CEO was liable for infringing local election legislation. However, the decision in question was overturned a week ago.

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Iranian authorities explained that their decision to block access to Google services, including Gmail, was due to an anti-Islam movie which caused protests throughout the globe.

The film in question, Innocence of Muslims, which appears to have been created to trigger riots in Arab countries, has finally put the search giant in a position where Iran wanted. The matter is that Iran had been looking for a reason to ban Google for a while, but couldn’t find a good one until YouTube refused to remove the anti-Islam movie. Now the local authorities can claim they are saving their citizens from the evil Google.

EU Watchdog against Google

It seems that European competition watchdog is planning to start formal proceedings against Google due to antitrust complaints.

Industry experts believed that there was hope Google might come to agreement with the EU Competition Commissioner before it got to court. However, recently he said that it hasn’t happened yet.

The problem is in the way the search engine promotes its services in its own search results. This issue is still not solved even as the parties prepare for a huge court case that might result in a fine equal to 10% of Google’s profits.

Microsoft Criticized Google for Breaching Privacy

Microsoft was noticed marketing its Bing search engine by claiming that Google breaches the privacy of its users.

Microsoft is reported to be sending out warnings to people who use Safari, urging the Internet users to use Bing since Google is careless about their privacy. Microsoft has launched a Bing landing webpage for Safari users. They have a reason to do so – recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had fined Google

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The software giant has recently snapped up German company Nik Software, thus also acquiring Instagram rival called Snapseed.

Senior Vice President for the company, Vic Gundotra, confirmed on Google+ that the company had made the acquisition, but he didn’t provide any other financial details. He just welcomed +Nik Software to the Google family, explaining that the company is dedicated to provide its users the opportunity to create photos they absolutely love, and Google believes that +Nik could do this better than anyone.

Google Chrome Won’t Track Users Anymore

The company has finally given in to pressure from everyone else in the industry and is currently planning to introduce a “do-not-track” feature on its browser.

The company is well-known for standing up for the rights of its advertisers to know what its users were doing. Nevertheless, it seems that Google finally changed its mind and is planning to support a “do-not-track” feature (DNT).

Google Interfered in Aussie Election

Google seems to have troubles for allegedly choosing which political parties deserved attention in an Aussie election. The local press confirms that the Australian Sex Party has filed a complaint against the search giant with both the American Department of Justice and the Australian competition watchdog.

The complaint says that the company was corrupt and blames Google for illegally interfering with the conduct of the latest Victorian by-election. Google allegedly refused to run the party’s adverts in the lead-up to the July 12 election. And it wasn’t the first time that this has happened – the search giant also refused to run their advertisements during the last federal election.

Former German First Lady Suing Google

Bettina Wulff, the wife of former German president, is doing her best to suppress online rumors about her. As such, she is suing Google to prevent it from linking to speculations about her former movements in the red light district.



According to the German press, the 38-year-old wife of the former president had recently submitted an affidavit claiming that all rumors about her having worked as a prostitute in her younger years were all a lie. Over 30 bloggers and media outlets from all over the world had to sign declarations within the past several months pledging to cease and desist from citing such rumors.

Google Could Be Sued Over Search Parameters

The CEO of a British search engine company has warned Google that the company could be sued if it doesn’t change its search result tactics.

According to Shivaun Raff, the co-founder and CEO of Foundem, Google faces “a tsunami of follow-on litigation” in case it fails to alter its search results in a negotiated settlement. Shivaun Raff told during the interview that the search engine’s need to avoid huge lawsuits from the entities affected by its previous dominance will mean that the case in question puts it in a strong position. So, everyone who thinks that the search giant will easily get away with superficial remedies is wrong.

Google Has Troubles in Germany

Do you know that Google has news section? This seems to cause it troubles because Chancellor Angela Merkel demands the search engine, as well as the others, to pay for every bit of reproduced material from news Internet portals.

Actually, Google News makes decent income out of hot reports from major news sites like the CNN, BBC, and New York Times. As such, Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed a week ago on a draft that would force Google and other aggregators to pay a fee for every bit of content borrowed from other sources. If Merkel succeeds with her plan, the search engine may find itself in trouble in Germany.