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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.