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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html
Google saves years of information on purchases you’ve made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-privacy-turnaround/
Google’s argument is that they’re able to protect you from other companies’ privacy-rejecting technologies, but you can and should give them more of your private data.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-adds-option-to-auto-delete-location-history-data/
the company has been sued in the US, and is also facing GDPR investigations in seven EU countries for using deceptive UI controls that hide the fact the company is sometimes collecting location data.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/almost-150-million-users-impacted-by-new-simbad-android-adware/
SimBad adware found in 210 Android apps available on the official Google Play Store.
To help make that energy more valuable to the power grid
they had not considered the Earth to be flat two years ago but changed their minds after watching videos promoting conspiracy theories on YouTube
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/technology/youtube-conspiracy-stars.html
YouTube’s stars are primarily homegrown, and many feel — not entirely unreasonably — that after years of encouraging them to build their audiences with viral stunts and baseless rumor-mongering, the platform is now changing the rules on them.
The tech giants are demanding a continuous stream of customer information from smart-home manufacturers, prompting privacy concerns.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
It looks like Facebook was not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
https://digiday.com/media/google-fined-57m-french-regulator-breaching-gdpr/
for making it difficult for users to see the detail on why and how they should give consent in order to be sent personalized ads, and for providing a pre-ticked option when requesting consent.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/12/14/youtube-is-reading-text-in-users-videos/
Google keeps tabs on much of your activity, including your browsing history and your location. Now, it turns out that its YouTube service is also reading what’s in your videos, too.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed […] even if their account was set to private.
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/wing-takes-flight-in-finland/
delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds) within a distance of up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
https://nrkbeta.no/2018/11/27/forbrukerradet-google-forer-brukerne-bak-lyset/
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