The only way we’re going to win back Net Neutrality is if FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler finds the courage to do the right thing. And a message from Google’s Larry Page, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg carries a lot of weight in Washington.

Help Us Bring Back Net Neutrality: Sign our letter urging Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix and Yahoo to save the Internet.

Google should follow through on its claim to provide a “different kind of Internet” by becoming a different kind of ISP.

We Can’t All Be in Google’s Kansas: A Plan for Winning the Bandwidth Race

Google to Pay $22.5M to Settle Privacy Complaint.

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• Federal Trade Commission announced that Google will pay $22.5 million to settle privacy dispute.
• The case involved allegations that Google bypassed privacy settings of users of Apple’s Safari Internet browser.
• This is not the first time Google has run into trouble over its privacy practices.
• The company agreed to a settlement last year over allegations that it violated its privacy policies for Gmail users.

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Google admits it didn’t delete all Wi-Fi data collected by Street View cars

Google: “We continue to have payload data from the UK and other countries.”

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Google Fiber TV hands-on impressions, photos, and video

We spent some time the the prototype hardware and services Google is launching along with Google Fiber in Kansas City. The hardware consists of a set of three small boxes — two in a gray that is as nondescript as possible. That’s not really a disappointment — these are utility boxes, after all — but it does mean you’ll want to put these boxes in the corner instead of on your mantlepiece.

Google announced its highly anticipated Google Fiber service today, bringing 1Gbps Internet access to selected residents of Kansas City.