Google has apparently told a US congresswoman that a Saudi government app that allows men to keep tabs on women and bar them from leaving the country is in compliance with its guidelines, Business Insider reported. The Alphabet-owned IT giant …
by chartr Very similar charts have been made in the past, such as this one. I thought I’d give it a refresh and also include some of the more personally nostalgic ones like Bebo! Data: Google Search Trends. Tool: Excel. …
by John Ward In a period of just nine days during February, a US search engine with links to the NSA has been caught conspiring to record Americans secretly, and censoring news about the populist movement Les Gilets Jaunes; while the …
Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic party …
ANDROID users have been warned against thousands of apps on the Google Play Store accused of tracking user behaviors to deliver targeted advertising without explicit permission, a new report has claimed. https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1088087/Android-warning-Google-Play-Store-apps-accused-of-tracking-user-behaviour
Goldman Sachs estimates Google paid Apple nearly $9.5 billion in traffic acquisition costs (TAC) during calendar year 2018. The fees will continue to make up a large portion of Apple’s services revenue into 2019, the firm said, but will grow …
A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested. The Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news …
via arstechnica: Google Play has been caught hosting yet another malicious app, this time one that was designed to steal cryptocurrency from unwitting end users, researchers said Friday. The malware, which masqueraded as a legitimate cryptocurrency app, worked by replacing wallet …
Reports: Russian authorities make deal with Google MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say that Google has agreed with national authorities to delete links to websites banned in Russia. The daily Vedomosti reported Thursday that Google has reached an agreement …
Via The Daily Caller Snopes refused to correct an inaccurate fact-check calling it “unproven” that American Indian activist Nathan Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. It’s a proven fact that Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Research psychologist Robert Epstein joined Tucker Carlson on Thursday night. In a previous appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight Epstein revealed that Google can take a 50-50 split among undecided voters and change it …
Recently a Google employee leaked documents on the Google Blacklist to Breitbart News. A partial list of blacklisted terms was also leaked to Breitbart by another Google Source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVGJncv-sA https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-search-blacklist-smoking-gun/
A Google executive sparked a fierce backlash from employees by using the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation, according to internal documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Many Google employees became angry that the term was used …
‘THE SMOKING GUN’: Google Manipulated YouTube Search Results for Abortion, Maxine Waters, David Hogg In sworn testimony, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress last month that his company does not “manually intervene” on any particular search result. Yet an internal discussion thread …
via yahoo: Google has had a lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition software thrown out, with a judge dismissing the case on the grounds that the plaintiff in the case did not suffer “concrete injuries,” Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The ruling puts to …
via quora: Did you know that unlike searching on DuckDuckGo, when you search on Google, they keep your search history forever? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow end of the very deep pool …
In the first patent, Google imagines devices that would scan and analyze the surroundings of your home, then offer you content based on what they detect. via theatlantic: It’s a familiar feeling: Type something into Google’s search bar, and then start …
via arstechnica: This is a company that, time and again, has tried to push the Web into a Google-controlled proprietary direction to improve the performance of Google’s online services when used in conjunction with Google’s browser, consolidating Google’s market positioning and …
by meltingspark Google is cornering the internet browser market. Companies have no choice but to switch to the chromium based web browser. If they don’t, google services don’t work properly. With all these browsers leaving their own open source browser …
Searching “Hillary Clinton e” produces no mention of email but the 1st autocomplete suggestion is emoji. Adding the m produces no results. Searching every other politician with “em” gives email as the 1st result. Taking the search to duckduckgo …
via Meadow Clark: Google used to have an iconic clause in its code of conduct that said, “Don’t be evil.” Yet the clause was recently and quietly sent down the memory hole. Given the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing involving Google …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Tuesday Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee. Pichai was called into Congress to explain Google business practices including data collection and targeting of conservative voices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2gbhA_5E-4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: …
Russian officials have threatened to block Google’s access in Russia unless it complies with a law that asks it to ban certain websites. The Vladimir Putin-led country is putting intense pressure on internet companies to block content it deems harmful …
Google Scott Adams… Google search results 4 and 5 are phony pix of me in Nazi uniform Click the 4th link, goes to a phony Twitter account, 15 followers Is Google intentionally trying to screw me over? If the photos …
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was interrogated by the House Judiciary Committee over a number of topics including potential bias in the search results it provides users. DuckDuckGo — a privacy-focused search engine company that competes with Google Search— released a study last week …
by Thinker The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which is the country’s competition regulator, recommended overseeing the commercial activities of Google and Facebook in order to protect smaller tech firms. In its preliminary report released Monday, the ACCC called …
From The Hill: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday responded to Rep. Steve King‘s (R-Iowa) confusion over why he sees unwelcome news on his iPhone, telling King, “Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company.” After @SteveKingIA raises inscrutable concerns about iPhones, Google …
Just now, in the House hearing on GOOG. Bloomberg covering live. I wonder how much Google had to pay for that advertisement? More importantly proof that the democrats are now going full-blown Fascist. There is no hiding it now. LIVE …
Google has disclosed another privacy leak from Google+, this time affecting millions of users, and now says it will push forward the shutdown forward from August to April. Today, Google revealed that another bug in its social network that exposed …