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Google Bard Is Greenlit in Europe After Addressing EU Privacy Concerns

July 19, 2023

The temporarily-delayed Google Bard is now available in the European Union, as the Irish DPC has decided that Google has provided enough information to assuage EU privacy concerns. Google Bard is adding the ability to opt out of personal data collection.

Data Privacy News

“All Your Content Belongs to Us”: Google Privacy Policy Update Suggests It Plans to Scrape Everything on the Internet to Improve AI Models

July 10, 2023

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.

Data Privacy News

Timeline for Google Privacy Sandbox Deprecation of Third-Party Cookies Shapes up as Online Advertising Braces for Another Impact

May 31, 2023

Google has made the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox deprecation of third-party cookies more clear, saying that 1% of Chrome users will be switched to the new online advertising system in the first quarter of 2024.

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Data Protection News

Google Settles Washington Location Tracking Lawsuit for $39.9 Million

May 26, 2023

Washington is the latest state in which Google has settled a location tracking lawsuit, adding to a list that has cost it a little over half a billion dollars to date. Lawsuits date back to a 2018 probe that found Google apps and services were continuing to track and log data even after users had changed privacy settings.

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Cyber Security News

New Google Top-Level Domains That Use Common File Extensions Could Pose a Serious Cyber Risk

May 24, 2023

A new source of cyber risk and attack may come from posting instructions that include a ZIP or MOV file name, with that text automatically converted into a URL leading to one of these new top-level domains.

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Cyber Security News

Google Play Store Ban Numbers Comparable to Recent Years With Over a Million Bad Apps Removed in 2022

May 5, 2023

Roughly in keeping with numbers seen in recent years, the Google Play Store announced that it blocked 1.43 million bad apps and banned 173,000 malicious or policy-violating developer accounts in 2022.

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Cyber Security News

Android Apps Soon to Be Required to Let Users Delete Account Data, Remove Profiles Entirely

April 13, 2023

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.

Data Privacy Insights

Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

February 15, 2023

The problem with Manifest V3 is that it limits the number of built-in and user-added rules for extensions installed by an individual user. Since at the core of any ad blocker extension is the filtering rules that teach it to detect ads, such restrictions can become a real snag.

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Data Protection News

Google Agrees to $391 Million Payment To Settle Multi-State Location Tracking Lawsuit

November 18, 2022

The case began with a probe opened by an assortment of state attorneys general in 2018 in response to consumer complaints. The investigation found that Google had been misleading about its use of location tracking dating back to at least 2014.

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Data Privacy News

Privacy Lawsuit Cites Internal Google Developer Jokes About “Incognito Mode” as Evidence the Company Knew It Didn’t Work as Advertised

October 18, 2022

Incognito Mode is an option in the Chrome browser that is supposed to keep user browsing and form entry data from being stored. A new privacy lawsuit cites internal discussions (and developer jokes) in challenging it.

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Google Bard Is Greenlit in Europe After Addressing EU Privacy Concerns

“All Your Content Belongs to Us”: Google Privacy Policy Update Suggests It Plans to Scrape Everything on the Internet to Improve AI Models

Timeline for Google Privacy Sandbox Deprecation of Third-Party Cookies Shapes up as Online Advertising Braces for Another Impact

Google Settles Washington Location Tracking Lawsuit for $39.9 Million

New Google Top-Level Domains That Use Common File Extensions Could Pose a Serious Cyber Risk

Google Play Store Ban Numbers Comparable to Recent Years With Over a Million Bad Apps Removed in 2022

Android Apps Soon to Be Required to Let Users Delete Account Data, Remove Profiles Entirely

Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

Google Agrees to $391 Million Payment To Settle Multi-State Location Tracking Lawsuit

Privacy Lawsuit Cites Internal Google Developer Jokes About “Incognito Mode” as Evidence the Company Knew It Didn’t Work as Advertised

Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

Carnival Cruise Data Breach Exposes Nearly 6 Million People in Cyber Attack Linked to ShinyHunters

Megalodon Supply Chain Attack Infects Over 5,500 GitHub Repositories with Backdoors and Stealers

State-Affiliated Iranian Hackers Linked to the Los Angeles Transit System Breach