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Posted by Mistique Cano, Policy Communications Manager Updated with video from the event below.Let’s say you go to a documentary screening at the National Archives. After the screening your friend really wants gelato. You search for a place nearby on …

Posted by Derek Slater, Senior Policy Analyst Earlier this year the FCC launched a wide-ranging Data Innovation Initiative to improve the ways it collects, analyzes, and disseminates information about the state of broadband in the United States. They

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public Policy Earlier this week U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk held a roundtable with a cross section of Silicon Valley companies to discuss trade challenges and opportunities faced by the U.S. tech s…

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel On November 4, 2008, as millions of Americans lined up to cast their ballots in a historic presidential election, another important vote was taking place at the Federal Communications Commis…

Posted by David Green, Public Affairs Fellow My father was in the Army while I was growing up and I moved around a lot. It was fun and exciting but occasionally a little sad since every two years I packed up my things and said goodbye to my friends. …

Posted by by Don Harrison, Deputy General CounselWe’ve always worked hard to ensure that our success is earned the right way — by building great products, not locking in our users or advertisers. That said, we recognize that as Google grows, we’re g…

Posted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Long, complicated and lawyerly—that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal document…

Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications YouTube’s Margaret Gould Stewart recently gave a TED talk about how YouTube’s Content ID system cross-references over 24 hours of uploaded content a minute with our rights holder datab…

Posted by Andrew Silverman, Senior Product Manager Last month we announced our plans to acquire ITA Software. Today, after meeting with many companies in the industry, we’re even more excited about building new tools that will make it easier for consu…

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this p…

Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg have an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that further explains our joint policy proposal for an open Internet. They describe our policy propo…

Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications The original architects of the Internet got the big things right. By making the network open, they …

Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel Updated video added belowHow do you come up with solutions for online privacy when technology is constantly evolving? It’s a challenge that engineers face every day when figuring out how to make it intuitive, s…

Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist Bending, walking, breathing, hearing, seeing and sleeping are simple things that are often taken for granted, as are thinking, learning, and communicating.Twenty years ago today, the Americans with Disabi…

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public Policy Today we submitted comments with the Federal Trade Commission in reaction to the Staff Discussion Draft about the future of journalism in the age of the Internet.We agree that the Internet has posed ch…