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