Hackers obtained the Social Security numbers of more than 145 million Americans. Paid political chaos monkeys allegedly harvested data from at least 87 million Facebook profiles in an effort to…

Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.

The company knew about a privacy glitch and kept quiet. That has to stop. 

Although the total number of trackers has decreased since GDPR came into effect, a few large tracking operators such as Google receive even more user data.

Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network, though it didn’t find evidence of misuse. The company opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny.

Slate’s Use of Your Data

Lame: if you want to save a home or work address in Google Maps, you now have to allow activity tracking throughout Google services.

I'm not sure why people are surprised. Google has been downright evil for quite a while now. They do this in all their products, down to the point of intentionally crippling them.

For instance, since Android 5, the standard contact app doesn't allow you to modify a contact which is not synced with an account. Why even do this? The list of tracking settings that can be turned permanently on, but only temporarily off is ever growing. At some point, you just give up because it's such a silly waste of time. Google knows this very well.

Almost all the google websites, except google search, work badly on anything except chrome. I mean, google groups is rotten already on chrome, but just try it on firefox for the full experience.

Maps (the website) used to be a game-changer in the past. It was insanely fast. Nowdays I hate it. The UI is just horrid. On Firefox it just misbehaves constantly. I only use it for streetview, and still I'm appalled at how badly it has evolved.

They are pushing still impressive libraries and tools. But there's not a single of their products I still like to use.

This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from …

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Idle Android devices typically send data ten times more often to Google than iOS devices do to Apple's servers, according to new research shared...

Google decided to take a peek at the photos in my unused account, pick some geotagged ones from 2009, change their time stamp, and add them to Google Maps. If this isn’t invasion of privacy I don’t know what it is. The thanks for sharing message is the cherry on top.

Google found the perfect way to link online ads to store purchases: credit card data

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          SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.
          An Associated Press investiga