The Ministry for Families has announced that it will support the “No Grey Areas Online” initiative to fight child pornography distributors, it was reported on Tuesday.
More than 25,000 Germans have taken advantage of a ruling by the EU Court of Justice in May that gave Europeans the right to request search engines like Google to remove results about them.
Every week brings a new headline pitting German politicians, businesses or unions against a US digital company. What is the country's problem with US tech businesses?
A German parliamentary panel looking into US Internet and telecoms surveillance plans to invite the heads of Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, a lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed plans for a “European internet” independent of America and targeted US internet giants Facebook and Google in her push for more privacy.
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A German court ruled on Friday that Google must block photos of a sadomasochistic orgy involving former Formula One boss Max Mosley. But the internet giant said it would appeal the ruling.
Elections, football and the new iPhone dominated German searches on Google in 2013. The internet giant on Tuesday revealed the most searched for terms in the country over the last 12 months.
The creative doodle which appears daily on Google’s Germany homepage marks an important event in the country’s history. But the association of June 30 with Germany’s favourite snack is not to everybody’s taste.
A Berlin design company has created software that picks out faces in Google Maps landscapes. “Projekt Google Faces” has scanned just five percent of the earth's surface but is already making some interesting finds.
Germany's top court has made a potentially landmark judgement against Google's internet search engine, ruling that plaintiffs have the right to take down offensive suggestions in its auto-complete function.
German authorities said Monday they had fined Google for illegally collecting massive amounts of personal data including emails, passwords and photos while setting up its disputed Street View service.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken part in her first Google “Hangout” session in which she discussed integration with seven carefully-selected guests.
Germany’s ruling centre-right coalition is set to water down proposed legislation that would force internet search engines and news aggregators like Google to pay publishers for displaying snippets of their content.
Computer scientists from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) have won an $81,000 (€61,000) prize from tech giant Google for developing an "air-writing" glove that could simplify typing on mobile phones.
German newspapers have rejected the idea of copying the agreement made last week between their French counterparts and the internet giant Google over royalties.
Google's annual Zeitgeist ranking gives an insight into what made German internet users tick in 2012, with sport and celebrities topping the chart of the nation's most googled keywords.
US internet giant Google is campaigning against a proposed German law that would force it and similar companies to pay publishers for displaying even snippets of their content.
Internet video platform Youtube is launching a range of new specialist online channels specifically for Germany, it announced Monday. But the Google-run company insisted that it was not trying to compete with television.
Google has admitted that it deliberately took people's internet surfing information with cars it sent round Germany taking pictures for its Street-View service.
While Google fights a sceptical public and officials in Germany, it is simultaneously funding a new internet research institute in Berlin. What is the US web giant hoping to accomplish? <b>Moises Mendoza</b> investigates.
Germany’s highest civil court has set out a process by which web hosts can avoid liability for libellous blog posts, in a decision which Google described as striking a blow for freedom of expression and information in the internet.
Microsoft’s Streetside service, which allows users to see virtual views of streets and houses, in a similar way to Google’s Street View is only generating a fraction of the opposition.
Google has bought German local bargain website DailyDeal as the internet titan seeks to expand its own local deals programme to users outside the United States.
