Lawmakers Want Apple and Google Investigated for “building advertising-specific tracking IDs into their mobile operating system”
By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), images (see 1, 2, 3, 4), and…
Google Now On Board with Digital Wallet to House Digital ID, Vaccine Certificates, Driver’s Licenses and more
Google is joining Apple in allowing the ability of a digital wallet to house digital versions, driver’s licenses, and vaccine certificates, tickets and more. —…
Google Engineer Placed On Leave After Insisting Company’s AI Is Sentient
By Tyler Durden A Google engineer has decided to go public after he was placed on paid leave for breaching confidentiality while insisting that the…
New Google Street View Camera “will make collections easier for partners”; 220+ Billion Images Captured So Far
By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ of all ages personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) and images (see…
Many Ways Google Threatens Everyone
By Neenah Payne Dr. Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California, has studied the many…
After Backlash, Google Turns Off “Newspeak” Correction Tool (For Now)
By Steve Watson Google claims that it has disabled a feature within its document editor that was correcting language to make it ‘more inclusive’, but…
Google Fights Dragnet Warrant for Users’ Search Histories Overseas While Continuing to Give Data to Police in the U.S.
By Naomi Gilens, Jennifer Lynch, and Veridiana Alimonti Google is fighting back against a Brazilian court order to turn over data on all users who…
New Google Docs Feature to Flag “potentially discriminatory or inappropriate language”
By Tom Parker Google Docs has announced that it will start flagging “potentially discriminatory or inappropriate language” and prompting users to make their writing “more…
Despite Complaints and Problems, Google Still Installing Fiber-Based Internet in U.S. Communities. Will Yours Be Next?
By B.N. Frank Over the years, serious problems have been reported about Google Fiber. Nevertheless, the company has continued to pitch its fiber optics technology…
Waymo Won’t Share Robotaxi Safety Data Including “secret descriptions of crashes involving its driverless cars”
By B.N. Frank Autonomous personal vehicles, delivery vehicles, and taxis are already being operated and/or tested in some U.S. cities (see 1, 2, 3, 4,…
Fired Google Researcher Starts Her Own A.I. Research Center
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) inaccuracies and vulnerabilities are nothing new (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). People have been accused and convicted of…
Google Docs Notifications are Updated to Restrict Docs that Contain “hate speech” and “misleading” Content
By Christina Maas Google has announced new notifications in Google Drive that show that the platform has restricted the sharing and access of files that…
Google Gives Employees until January 18 to Take COVID Jab or Apply for Exemption
By B.N. Frank Opposition to employer COVID vaccine mandates is not going away. Instead of mandating vaccines, governors in Florida and Tennessee are offering to…
FDA Ordered Google to Remove Covid Videos from YouTube Because Agency Didn’t Like Their Message
By Ethan Huff It has come to light that back in April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to a Google…