The secret "Jedi Blue" deal that is facing antitrust probes involves Facebook refraining from engaging in "header bidding," a practice that tends to take money out of Google's coffers.
The wording of Google’s latest privacy policy update essentially declares that the entire internet is its domain to scrape for training its AI models and creation of its AI products, a position that is all but assured to generate legal challenges.
Google is potentially facing a $5 billion fine for privacy violations by collecting data without consent when users are in "private browsing" mode.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has announced it is providing free USB security keys to a collection of politicians, activists and other high-risk individuals likely to be targeted by nation-state hackers.
Google has culled 500 over Chrome browser extensions used in a massive ad fraud campaign that pingponged 1.7 million users through dozens of ads and redirected them to phishing site.
Instead of sending personally identifiable information directly to advertisers, Google is allegedly using hidden web tracking pages to keep its online advertising profitable.
Starting in 2024, Android apps that want to be listed on the Google Play Store will need to provide users with greater control over the data they collect. Apps must allow users to delete their account data whenever they choose, and to entirely remove their account from the app.
Apple and Google are developing a unified contact tracing app for coronavirus, however much work is needed from the two tech giants to address consumer privacy and coverage concerns.
As third-quarter reports roll out, the full effect of the Apple privacy changes to iOS are beginning to be measurable. The early report is that the ad revenue impact is very different for different companies.
Apple and Google jointly launched a contact tracing technology for health agencies to develop their own apps but only three U.S. states have committed to using it in their public health strategies.
