- The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Alphabet’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Waymo applied with the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test fully self-driving vehicles on public roads.
- California opened up the application process at the beginning of April.
- A UK judge rules against Google in a “right to be forgotten” case involving an unnamed man who was convicted of conspiracy to intercept communications over 10 years ago and now wants his search results erased.
- Google had argued that the EU search policy wasn’t meant as a “right to rewrite history.”
- The judge says the plaintiff shows remorse and the offense was minor.
- Google’s upcoming Gmail redesign will include a Confidential Mode that blocks recipients from forwarding, copying, downloading, or printing certain emails.
- Gmail users will also have the ability to require a passcode to open emails or set an expiration date for a sent email.
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