Responding to Article 29 Working Party’s Questions

The group of European data protection agencies in the Article 29 Working Party last week invited three US-based search engines - Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!- to discuss “the practical implementation” of the Right to be Forgotten. Before the meeting, the working party sent us a questionnaire.

Today, in a move to support the working party’s goal of transparency, we are publishing our answers.



The European Court of Justice ruling has sparked a debate about privacy and access to information. We are actively complying with it. Our answers also make clear that many questions raised by the ruling remain unresolved - and will be the subject of a welcome public discussion over coming months.

Posted by William Echikson, Senior Manager Communications and Public Affairs, Brussels

Seeking advice on the Right to be Forgotten

Earlier this summer we announced the formation of an Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten. As the Council begins its work, it is seeking comment from experts on the issues raised by the CJEU ruling. Experts will be considered for selection to present to the Council in-person during public consultations held this fall, in the following cities:

• September 9 in Madrid, Spain
• September 10 in Rome, Italy
• September 25 in Paris, France
• September 30 in Warsaw, Poland
• October 14 in Berlin, Germany
• October 16 in London, UK
• November 4 in Brussels, Belgium

The Council welcomes position papers, research, and surveys in addition to other comments. We accept submissions in any official EU language. Though the Council will review comments on a rolling basis throughout the fall, it may not be possible to invite authors who submit after August 11 to present evidence at the public consultations.

Stay tuned for details on the Council’s activity.

Posted by Betsy Masiello, Google Secretariat to the Council

Launching new features for bicyclists

While the Tour de France may just have completed its final lap around the Champs Elysees, our Maps team continues to pedal ahead at top speed. Want to avoid that brutal Mountain Stage while you’re cycling to work? The latest version of Google Maps for Android update puts elevations in bike directions, so you can arrive with leg muscles intact.

We first added biking directions three years ago to our maps for a number of countries in Europe, from Austria to the United Kingdom. It proved to be a popular feature among cycling amateurs and enthusiasts and we’ve expanded the product to cover almost the entire continent. Enthusiastic users have added hundreds of kilometers of biking paths through Google Mapmaker.

We’re also innovating before you hop onto the bicycle. Do you sometimes get a sudden urge for a pizza or a banana split? The improved GoogleMaps for desktop lets you click and drag to measure your next road trip, bike ride or run—even if you’re taking a few sharp turns.

Oh, and what about the Tour de France? With the race over, you might want to relive its high moments, visiting the routes the riders took up the same mountains with StreetView, starting in Saint-Étienne and climbing into the Alps to finish at Chamrousse. And if you want to say au revoir to Le Tour de France, look below, or click on an EarthView on the Champs Élysées.


Posted by Gareth Evans, Communications Manager, London

Tutorial Screenshot Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Tanpa Aplikasi

Apa itu screen shot? secara bahasa terkandung dua suku kata yaitu screen yang berarti layar dan shoot yang berarti menembak atau mengambil, arti secara keseluruhan adalah mengambil layar atau dapat di artikan proses penggambilan gambar yang tertera pada layar Smartphone ataupun Android. Pada umumnya screenshot atau capture di gunakan oleh pengguna Android untuk keperluan yang bermacam-macam tentunya sesuai dengan kebutuhan masing-masing.

Pertanyaan berikutnya adalah apakah sebegitu pentingnya aplikasi screenshoot ini? jawabannya adalah seperti pernyataan diatas yaitu sesuai kebutuhan pengguna Android. Untuk beberapa  kejadian proses screenshot ini dijadikan bukti untuk suatu tindak kejahatan tertentu. Kita ambil contoh beberapa kasus yang baru saja hangat dibicarakan yaitu kasus penghinaan Floren Sihombing terhadap masyarakat Yogyakarta di akun Path yang berujung di pidanakan. Status Path Floren saat ini banyak bererdar di Internet maupun di koran tentunya gambar tersebut di dapat dengan mengcapture atau menscreenshot. Itulah penjelasan seputar pengertian Screnshot langsung saja kita mulai tutorialnya. Untuk proses Screenshot atau Capture di Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 ini dapat di lakukan dengan dua cara.

Cara Pertama
Untuk melakukan screnshoot layar Samsung Tab 3  terlebih dahulu kita perlu mengetahui beberapa tombol luar yang ada di menu Samsung Tab 3 tersebut. Tombol ini nantinya yang akan di gunakan dalam proses Screnshot.

Pada gambar diatas terdapat dua tombol yaitu tombol Home da Tombol On / Off . Uuntuk proses screenshot atau capture tekan tombol Home dan On / Off secara bersamaan tunggu satu sampai dua detik sehingga muncul suara seperti kita mengambil gambar saat memotret di Smartphone atau Tablet. Perlu di ingat pada saat menekan tombol harus secara bersamaan, jika tidak proses screenshot bisa dipastikan gagal, tanda bahwa proses ini berhasil di semua ujung layar Tab 3 Anda akan muncul gambar putih membentuk garis kotak seukuran layar Tab 3.8.0 Anda.

Cara Kedua
Masuk ke menu Pengaturan atau Settings, pada menu System pilih Motion, Selanjutnya pada menu Hand motions klik pada kolom kotak sehinga muncul tanda centang hijau. Setelah itu silahkan pilih layar mana yang ingin Anda Capture. Untuk Screenshot posisikan tangan Anda menghadap ke atas gesekkan tangan Anda dengan sedikit tekanan ke layar Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 dari pojok layar dari kiri ke kanan atau sebaliknya dari kanan ke kiri, setelah itu lepas gesekkan tunggu hingga muncul suara seperti saat Anda mengambil foto dengan Hp, Smatphone.

Untuk melihat gambar hasil dari screenshot masuk ke menu Gallery di Tab 3.8 Anda masuk ke menu Screenshot / Tangkapan layar. Bagi Anda pengguna Smartphone dan Tablet Android merek dan tipe lainnya cara yang di gunakan kurang lebih sama, untuk tutorialnya silahkan lihat di sini. Dan untuk lebih jelasnya bisa lihat video tutorial cara screenshot Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tanpa aplikasi dibawah ini :

5 Game Android Edukasi Untuk Anak Balita

Androoms - 5 Game Android Edukasi Untuk Anak Balita | Masa kanak-kanak merupakan masa yang penuh dengan permainan, biasanya segala hal akan ia coba meskipun terdapat resiko yang tidak bisa dianggap sepele. Peranan orang tua pun sangat diperlukan agar tumbuh kembang anak bisa berkembang dengan optimal. Di era gadget seperti ini seringkali kita melihat banyak orang tua/kakak2 nya membiarkan

Lenovo Vibe X - Harga Terbaru September 2014

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Bletchley Park’s rebirth and why it matters

Twenty five years ago, the historic World War II codebreaking center Bletchley Park faced demolition.  We have supported its restoration, culminating in last month’s opening of Block C by the Duchess of Cambridge. Her grandmother Valerie Glassborow worked as a duty officer and managed the interception of enemy signals for decryption at Bletchley.

Photos copyright Shaun Armstrong

Now reborn as one of England’s most evocative museums, Bletchley Park is a fitting place of pilgrimage for both history and technology fans alike. The extraordinary code-breaking feats that took place in its spartan wooden huts were crucial to the Allied victory, and helped lay the foundations for the computer age. We were honoured to have been invited to create this new film for the visitors centre:


Bletchley Park is where Alan Turing’s theories were first put into practice, in the Bombe machines used to break Enigma, operated by women like 93 year old veteran and grandmother of one of our colleagues in Google London, Jean Valentine. It was also home to Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer.

As important as what was achieved at Bletchley Park are the lessons we can learn from the way it was done.

Bletchley Park was a melting pot of brilliant minds set free by an atmosphere of tolerance. Societal norms were swept aside because of extreme need and circumstances. What mattered was what a person could do — not their gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin or any supposed eccentricity. By removing these artificial constraints, Bletchley Park brought out the best in the fullest range of talent.

In this sense, Bletchley’s codebreaking success came not in spite of people’s differences, but because of them. It’s a compelling role model for the power of diversity that resonates still today.

Overall, at Bletchley Park thousands of talented people, more than half women, made heroic contributions that were kept secret until the 1970s. To borrow Keira Knightley’s line playing code breaker Joan Clarke in upcoming movie “The Imitation Game”: “Sometimes it’s the people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.”

Google has long championed saving Bletchley Park together with Dr. Sue Black, Stephen Fry, Sir John Scarlett and many others. We’ve donated money, hosted events, created videos to help preserve and promote its story, including this . But nothing beats the experience of visiting this hallowed place in person — it’s just 45 minutes by train from London Euston — do go if you can. We promise you will be inspired by these technical heroes and early founders of our industry.

Posted by Lynette Webb and Megan Smith, Google