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Privacy watchdogs urge new probe of Google

Jessica Guynn, Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:07am

SAN FRANCISCO -- Privacy watchdogs are urging the nation's top law enforcer to launch a new investigation into Google Inc. after the Federal Communications Commission did not find evidence that the Mountain View, Calif., company broke eavesdropping laws in collecting Internet data from millions of unknowing U.S. households.

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Senator plans to hold hearing on Facebook tracking of users

Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 6:13pm

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he would hold a hearing to look into reports that Facebook tracks its users on the Web after they log out.

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At their Olympic rowing team house in Chula Vista, California, Tyler Winklevoss (left) and his identical twin brother Cameron Winklevoss pose for a portrait. The 29-year-old Harvard graduates say that they and another friend had the original idea for the social network Facebook. They settled with Facebook and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg but are contesting the out-of-court settlement reached three years ago.

While suing Facebook, twins train in Olympic rowing

Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, February 28, 2011 - 1:15pm

SAN DIEGO -- Seven years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, started a Web service for college students from his dorm room that fueled a fundamental shift in how people spend time on the Web.

It also dramatically changed how Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss spend their lives offline.

The Olympic oarsmen say Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook and sabotaged their efforts to launch their own social networking site.

They say they might have given up their Olympic dreams to work on ConnectU. Instead they poured their energy into a high-stakes lawsuit against Facebook and competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, finishing sixth in the coxless pairs.

Now the Winklevosses are jumping back into their racing shells with their sights set on London in 2012 as members of the U.S. team training in San Diego.

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Google's outlandish ventures go beyond web

Jessica Guynn, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 5:14pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- With mountains of cash and some of the world's smartest engineers, Google Inc. has always set aside research and development dollars for futuristic ventures that appear to have little in common with its core business of Internet search.

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Technical glitch blocks Google searches in China

David Pierson, Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 8:57pm

BEIJING -- A technical glitch originating with Google Inc. -- not Chinese government censorship -- was behind an outage of the search engine in mainland China on Tuesday.

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