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

$2.5m-a-year CEO set to take a pay cut, so that's all right, then

The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “network effects”

New ethical principles restrict the work of Google's AI scientists on military projects, but key questions about the technology industry and the future of war remain unanswered

The malicious Chrome extensions have been installed by more than 80 million users.

pkg.go.dev sucks. It’s certainly prettier than godoc.org, but under the covers, it’s a failure of engineering characteristic of the Google approach.

Google is letting developers test trust tokens, its replacement for ad cookies.

As Alex McDonald notes in this
support request, Google has recently banned the old Usenet groups
comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp from the Google Groups system.
"Of specific concern is the archive. These are some of the oldest
groups on Usenet, and the depth & breadth of the historical material that
has just disappeared from the internet, on two seminal programming
languages, is huge and highly damaging. These are the history and
collective memories of two communities that are being expunged, and it's
not great, since there is no other comprehensive archive after Google's
purchase of Dejanews around 20 years ago."
Perhaps Google can be convinced to restore the content, but it also seems
that some of this material could benefit from a more stable archive.

Google is already under investigation by Congress, DOJ, and 50 state AGs.

Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's address bar, because apparently long web addresses are scary and evil. Despite the

In July 2018, Google was fined €4.34 billion for limiting search on Android phones. Almost two years later, its rivals claim little has changed and the company is as dominant as ever

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.

"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.