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Chrome is trying to lure Edge users away from the Microsoft browser by issuing provocative messages on their platforms.
It's not a bug, it's a feature, explains the Chocolate Factory
Goedenavond TAG! This is not your typical spec review, and is highly related to #320. But, because @torgo asked nicely, I'm opening up a review for a specific application of UA-CH as a replacem...
More and more companies are promising privacy online and an alternative to the big internet firms.
Google is facing a culture crisis, leading to protests and seasoned employees heading for the door.
Whistleblower tells Guardian of growing alarm over secret transfer of medical history data, which can be accessed by Google staff
Several residential builders have stopped buying and installing Google’s Nest devices after the internet giant overhauled how Nest technology works with other gadgets.
As the company whittles away free storage offers and prompts more people to pay, that creates a new revenue stream.
They need facial scans of people with darker skin
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
The new Face Match technology isn't everywhere yet, but it's always looking. Find out what's happening with your face data and what you can do to stop it.
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
Like many things that starts out as a mere annoyance, though eventually growing into somewhat of an affliction. One particularly dark and...
Google employees are apparently stopping people in the streets of some major cities in an effort to gather face data, probably as it prepares for Pixel 4.
Jesus Mendez, the SEO Director at MailOnline, which operators DailyMail.co.uk, has admitted publicly that the site took a massive hit by the June 2019 Google core update which began rolling out June 3
I’ve noticed something about Google Photos that is weird enough that nobody initially believes it.
Steeds meer Nederlanders gebruiken de slimme Google Home-assistent in huis. Het zou zomaar kunnen dat medewerkers van Google meer horen dan je lief is.
Breaking down why I have decided to start blocking Google from crawling my website
The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy.
Libra is the last thing we need. Big tech’s use of our data is already worrying, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Google Maps is filled with false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby. Some are fibbing to get your business. Others are posted by predators seeing what they can take.
No, Google won’t stop reading your emails. And you may not actually want it to. The search giant introduced a significant change to the way it treats its users’ emails Friday, announcing that…
From the author of uBlock on this:
What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do.
This is how personally I see the deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API in manifest v3:
In order for Google Chrome to reach its current user base, it had to support content blockers -- these are the top most popular extensions for any browser. Google strategy has been to find the optimal point between the two goals of growing the user base of Google Chrome and preventing content blockers from harming its business.
The blocking ability of the webRequest API caused Google to yield control of content blocking to content blockers. Now that Google Chrome is the dominant browser, it is in a better position to shift the optimal point between the two goals which benefits Google's primary business.
The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information which will be collectable by Google Chrome.
In a response to negative feedback, Google shared that Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities for extensions will soon be restricted to enterprise users.
Sometimes it’s worth pausing to ask the simplest questions.
Google collects the purchases you've made, including from other stores and sites such as Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases.
<p>In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps, and other outside sources— to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook […]</p>
Gmail servers have been randomly rejecting my personal mail with vague SMTP errors about spam detection.
The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
A significant majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities across their lives, their locations, on other sites, and on other platforms.
Google is about as open as a clam. Over the holidays, I found a Chromebook that Samsung had given me to evaluate about six years ago and which had been gathering dust ever since. Coincidentally, Laura’s sister Annie had just told me that she needed a laptop. Hmm… Well, there was no way I was going to give her a Google spy device, so I decided to liberate the Chromebook from Google’s surveillance-based operating system (ChromeOS) and gift it to her.
Spoiler : c'est plus compliqué que ça en a l'air
Facebook, Google, and other masters of the surveillance economy have bred a virulent mutation of capitalism, which explains why they aren’t interested in addressing their many scandals
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
Personal Site of Reda Lemeden
Après avoir fait plier Twitter, UFC-Que Choisir continue son combat pour la protection des données personnelles.
Police are increasingly using judge-approved "reverse location" search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it's a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it's an important new crime fighting tool.
Google files 2018 revenues revealing that it pays $900m more in fines than it pays in taxes,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Google,Alphabet,European Commission
L’entreprise propose aux internautes d’installer un programme permettant de suivre toutes leurs activités en ligne en échange de cartes cadeaux. Mais, contrairement à Facebook, les mineurs ne sont pas directement visés.
Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online in…
Google's public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans' data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn't quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators. And if Google had its way, the public would have never learned the software on Google's Street View mapping cars was "intended" to collect payload data from open Wi-Fi networks.
Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.
When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) – Aral Balkan
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy.
You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.
How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a human arbiter to help you. If you think back to earlier times where, say you lost your bank [&helli…
A political website pulled an article after Google’s AdSense team threatened to withdraw advertising.
University researchers push the limits of Google’s experimental radar hardware
The long read: We knew that being connected had a price – our data. But we didn’t care. Then it turned out that Google’s main clients included the military and intelligence agencies
I’m on Team Firefox.
Plus: Are your Google results really that different from your neighbor's?
Amazon won't sell Nest's connected cameras and security products. Meanwhile, it bought the smart home company Ring for $1 billion to compete with Google.
Tout ça à cause de Streams, une application utilisée par les médecins anglais. DeepMind, une société d’intelligence artificielle vient de transférer le contrôle de son application de santé, Streams, à Google. Une décision critiquée, car elle va à l’encontre d’une promesse de...
Google wants to know what you buy and Mastercard is here to help.
Au regard de la surface financière acquise par Google, l’amende que vient de lui infliger l’Union européenne, pour record qu’elle soit, a tout d’une goutte...
Face au changement de politique de Google sur la cartographie, le département de Maine-et-Loire a choisi de faire appel au service dOpenstreet.
Début mai, Google a annoncé une refonte complète de son offre cartographique à destination des professionnels. Ces changements, qui impliquent de renseigner obligatoirement un code de carte bleue, se traduisent par une explosion des prix pour les usages professionnels avec une réduction drastique du volume daffichages gratuits autorisés.Le quota gratuit de 25 000 cartes affichées par jour sur un site web passe maintenant à 28 000, mais par mois (soit en moyenne moins de 1000 par jour). C'est-à-...
Since Privacy International ranked Google worst in the world for Privacy in its 2007 privacy survey for its unique “comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy,” Google has had at least 24 more public scandals/controversies over privacy/security.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you
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Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and threatened that employees would be fired if they spoke out.
Download Google Container for Firefox. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADDON FROM MOZILLA!
It is a fork of the Facebook Container addon.
Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Google.
We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a…
Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules
A smart home that really knows where you live.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I went through a process of de-Googling my life a while ago. For the most part I think the process was pretty successful, however there were some things that I couldn’t replace. Fast forward a year, and after a lot of trial and error I’m ready to…
TL;DR: An undocumented API in Google home devices is easily exploitable. This command will reboot any on your local network: nmap –open -p 8008 192.168.1.0/24 | awk ‘/is up/ {print up};…
Hackers obtained the Social Security numbers of more than 145 million Americans. Paid political chaos monkeys allegedly harvested data from at least 87 million Facebook profiles in an effort to…
Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to answer a list of questions from a bipartisan group of six senators.