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Google's latest (10th) transparency report indicates that the government demands for data are increasing in recent years. This report shows demands from government in the first six months of 2014, and the firm said that it includes demands made under the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and through National Security Letters (NSLs).
Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API , on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.
Certificate Transparency (CT) is an Internet security standard for monitoring and auditing the issuance of digital certificates. [1] When an internet user interacts with a website, a trusted third party is needed for assurance that the website is legitimate and that the website's encryption key is valid.
Google has also been implicated in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, a case before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's national court) and the European Court of Justice, which required Google to comply with the European privacy laws (i.e., the Data Protection Directive) and to allow users to be forgotten when operating in the ...
Google, founded in 1998, is the most widely used search engine, receiving billions and billions of search queries every month. [8] Google logs all search terms in a database along with the date and time of search, browser and operating system, IP address of user, the Google cookie, and the URL that shows the search engine and search query. [10]
Research conducted by Google and UC Berkeley [2] identified that users didn't notably alter behavior based on the presence or absence of these indicators. The results of this research motivated Google, which commanded significant browser market share, [ 3 ] to discontinue differentiation between the different certificate types.
The program follows links to other pages, and checks the links on those pages also, so it is possible to check an entire site for broken links in one session. Xenu displays a continuously updated list of URLs which can be sorted according to different criteria. [ 2 ]
Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google in September 2012. [1] [2] The company's ownership switched in January 2018 to Chronicle, a subsidiary of Google. VirusTotal's modus operandi is multiscanning. It aggregates many antivirus products and online scan engines [3] [4] called Contributors. [5]