"The current UI feels like it is designed to make things possible, yet difficult enough that people won’t figure it out."

A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

Users have received notifications when their Google Home speakers hear smoke alarms or breaking glass

Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information --every day -- about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit.

This might get technical

Hey Alexa, stop listening to my client’s information.

"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used." - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although big tech companies like Google keep the lights on by harvesting and monetizing your personal data, they can be quick to mince words and deny the strawman scenario of exchanging hard drives full of your data for a suitcase of money. Now California law has given them another reason to deny and deflect.

Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.

New Mexico AG claims the company uses its dominance in educational software to track millions of future customers.

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.

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.