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.

It can be hard to keep track of when your information has been stolen, so we’re going to help by launching Firefox Monitor, a free service that notifies people when they’ve been part of a data breach.

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 …

The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.

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XDA Recognized Developer M66B released an open source email application called FairEmail with the goal of being privacy-friendly.

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The e-commerce giant’s absence from the Nordic country has allowed domestic rivals to thrive, even while locals clamor for the US tech company to expand locally.

If it feels like Amazon’s site is increasingly stuffed with ads, that’s because it is.

Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times.

Firmware used in up to 800,000 CCTV cameras open to attack thanks to buffer overflow zero-day bug.

A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.

Five-year-old program provides government with direct access to email, messages, browser history, more

Facebook can identify people people "at risk" of jumping ship from one brand to a competitor. The technology raises ethical alarms among experts.

Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.

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...