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Google files 2018 revenues revealing that it pays $900m more in fines than it pays in taxes,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Google,Alphabet,European Commission
L’entreprise propose aux internautes d’installer un programme permettant de suivre toutes leurs activités en ligne en échange de cartes cadeaux. Mais, contrairement à Facebook, les mineurs ne sont pas directement visés.
Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online in…
Google's public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans' data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn't quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators. And if Google had its way, the public would have never learned the software on Google's Street View mapping cars was "intended" to collect payload data from open Wi-Fi networks.
Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.
When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) – Aral Balkan
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy.
You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.
How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a human arbiter to help you. If you think back to earlier times where, say you lost your bank [&helli…
A political website pulled an article after Google’s AdSense team threatened to withdraw advertising.
University researchers push the limits of Google’s experimental radar hardware
The long read: We knew that being connected had a price – our data. But we didn’t care. Then it turned out that Google’s main clients included the military and intelligence agencies
I’m on Team Firefox.
Plus: Are your Google results really that different from your neighbor's?
Amazon won't sell Nest's connected cameras and security products. Meanwhile, it bought the smart home company Ring for $1 billion to compete with Google.
Tout ça à cause de Streams, une application utilisée par les médecins anglais. DeepMind, une société d’intelligence artificielle vient de transférer le contrôle de son application de santé, Streams, à Google. Une décision critiquée, car elle va à l’encontre d’une promesse de...