Official Google Blog |
| Celebrating Google Play’s first birthday Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:19 AM PST Accessing digital entertainment should be simple, whether you like to read books on your tablet, listen to music on your phone and computer, or watch movies on all three. That's why one year ago today we launched Google Play, where you can find and enjoy your favorite music, movies, books and apps on your Android phone and tablet, or on the web. Google Play has grown rapidly in the last year, bringing you more content in more languages and places around the globe. In addition to offering more than 700,000 apps and games, we've partnered with all of the major music companies, movie studios and publishers to bring you the music, movies, TV shows, books and magazines you love. And we've added more ways for you to buy them, including paying through your phone bill and gift cards, which we're beginning to roll out in the U.K. this week. Since no birthday is complete without presents, we're celebrating with a bunch of special offers across the store on songs, TV shows, movies and books. We're even offering a collection of games with some fun birthday surprises created by developers. It's been a busy year, but we're just getting started. We look forward to many more years of bringing you the best in entertainment!   |
| Transparency Report: Shedding more light on National Security Letters Posted: 05 Mar 2013 11:22 AM PST Our users trust Google with a lot of very important data, whether it's emails, photos, documents, posts or videos. We work exceptionally hard to keep that information safe—hiring some of the best security experts in the world, investing millions of dollars in technology and baking security protections such as 2-step verification into our products. Of course, people don't always use our services for good, and it's important that law enforcement be able to investigate illegal activity. This may involve requests for personal information. When we receive these requests, we:
When conducting national security investigations, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation can issue a National Security Letter (NSL) to obtain identifying information about a subscriber from telephone and Internet companies. The FBI has the authority to prohibit companies from talking about these requests. But we've been trying to find a way to provide more information about the NSLs we get—particularly as people have voiced concerns about the increase in their use since 9/11. Starting today, we're now including data about NSLs in our Transparency Report. We're thankful to U.S. government officials for working with us to provide greater insight into the use of NSLs. Visit our page on user data requests in the U.S. and you'll see, in broad strokes, how many NSLs for user data Google receives, as well as the number of accounts in question. In addition, you can now find answers to some common questions we get asked about NSLs on our Transparency Report FAQ.  You'll notice that we're reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations. We plan to update these figures annually. (Cross-posted on the Public Policy Blog)  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Official Google Blog To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment
You can write whatever you want, but technically, the precise mathematical-statistical forecast of earthquakes based on information about the behavior of wild and domestic animals, birds, fish, and individuals available from 1995, with the advent of social networking.