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If you clicked the links, you may have noticed the second one was broken, as is the one to the "rap sheet" linked in the article of The Register. However, easy
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
If you clicked the links, you may have noticed the second one was broken, as is the one to the "rap sheet" linked in the article of The Register. However, easy to find:
http://googleopoly.net/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Googles_Rap_Sheet.pdf http://googleopoly.net/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Googles_Rap_Sh...
Take your pick. I chose this (you have to copy and paste the shortened URL and paste it)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/google-caught-pilfering-kenyan-business-directory-in-sting-operation/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/google-caught-pi...
> "We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality's data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites. We've already unreservedly apologized to Mocality."
So where you see no harm at all, Google management is "mortified" by what employees had done. I guess a potential out would be trying to split hairs about what constitutes "Google". Not that every one of these stories ends with "oh no, what did these rascals do while unsupervised?", but for the ones that do, you could try that.
- justinclift 8y agoOops, bad cut-n-paste on my part there. The links should have been: * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/30/google_slurp_ok/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/30/google_slurp_ok/ * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/eu-google-fine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/eu-google-fine... * https://variety.com/2019/data/global/google-fined-57-million-in-france-for-breach-of-data-protection-rules-1203113722/ https://variety.com/2019/data/global/google-fined-57-million...