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… several other publishing industry groups complained that Google in an open letter that Google was imposing GDPR risks on publishers and consumers. Under the system Google proposed for GDPR compliance, Google would impose …
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… Equifax withdrew its mobile apps from Apple's App Store and Google Play because of security flaws that meant that data … om/40468811/heres-why-equifax-yanked-its-apps-from-apple-and-google-last-week tags: Equifax, malware, security, …
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… is to enable the companies involved to compete better with Google's Ad words and Facebook's ad platform, which together …
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… with these services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Twitter and the Korean messaging app KakaoTalk. In … referred to this as “PageRank for people”, a reference to Google’s method of determining the importance of a webpage … other high-quality pages linking to it would appear high in Google search results, so would a person with many …
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… Examples Date 8th October 2018 Google announced on October 8 having discovered a vulnerability in the Google+ API which has been open since 2015. This … profile photos, and gender-related information. While Google only retains 2 weeks of activity logs and cannot …
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… They also threaten privacy and data protection. Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon are often collectively … globally run on the Android operating system, controlled by Google. Nearly the other 20% run on Apple IOS. Facebook’s … over 60% on all devices (and up to 70% on mobile devices.) Google dominates the global market of general internet …
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… people use are also based in the US (think Amazon or Google), it means that if someone in the UK were to visit a …
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… traffic to and from France (2) all search queries on Google (3) all purchases on Amazon (4) all location …
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… before. According to their written statements, Facebook, Google and Twitter believe that they have adequately … moment. Ad-supported platforms like Twitter, Facebook or Google are designed to grab and keep people’s attention, … across all the countries Facebook operates in. Why is Google not showing up? Congress invited Larry Page, CEO of …
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… re-election campaign targeting users through ad words in Google search and targeted advertising on a range of social …
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… and live chats. The technology companies, which included Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, AOL, and Yahoo, … their assistance in providing access. In a statement, Google responded that government had no direct access to its … stepped up existing investigations, particularly two into Google: one concerning its merged privacy policies, and …
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… Examples Date 18th May 2018 In May 2018, Google announced an AI system to carry out tasks such as … and negotiate times and numbers. In announcing the service, Google stressed its use of "speech dysfluencies" - that is, … when they discovered they were talking to an AI agent. Google quickly promised that such calls would always be …
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… the US Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to block Google's Store Sales Measurement service, which the company introduced in May at the 2017 Google Marketing Next event. Google's stated goal was to link offline sales to online ad …
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… the company as two separate divisions. In April 2007, Google acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. The … it was unlikely to lessen competition even though by then Google had become dominant in pay-per-click internet … not relevant to an antitrust review. At the acquisition, Google founder Sergey Brin said privacy would be the …
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… Consumer Watchdog advocacy group filed a complaint against Google alleging that the company had violated its 2011 … with the US Federal Trade Commission in the case about Google Buzz. The complaint was based on February 2012 … as these are often used to track users across the web. Google's privacy controls offered users of many other …
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… the first thing people saw when they searched for him on Google. When the courts declined to order the newspaper to remove the announcement, Costeja asked Google Spain to stop linking to it in search results on his name. When Google did nothing more than forward the complaint to its …
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… Examples Date 25th January 2012 In 2012, Google announced it would condense 70 different privacy … better search results by combining personal data and Google+ information to create "social search" that would … complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission arguing that Google's policy change was highly deceptive and violated …
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… sites such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr led Google to develop Buzz, an attempt to incorporate status … link their various social media feeds, including Picasa (Google's photo-sharing service) and Reader (Google's RSS news reader), directly into Gmail. Via the …
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… the established writer GrrlScientist tried to log into her Google account and found that it was suspended, barring her access to Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, Google Reader, and the newly launched social network …
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… Examples Date 15th May 2010 In 2010, Google revealed that a data audit required by Germany's data … wifi networks, including personal web browsing histories. Google said it used network names (SSIDs) and router … a $25,000 for obstructing the investigation. In March 2013, Google agreed to pay $7 million to settle investigations in …
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… Examples Date 2nd April 2009 Google launched its first version of Android in 2009. Based … apps for email, scheduling, web browsing, Maps, and Google's Orkut social network (later replaced by Google+), offered the company an unprecedentedly intimate …
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… Examples Date 30th May 2007 In May 2007, Google launched Street View, an add-on to its Maps service … in embarrassing or even illegal situations on the street. Google argued that Street View only captured images taken on public property. In August, Google announced that users could request that their faces …
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… Date 15th March 2007 To personalise the services it offers, Google retains user data such as search histories and as … and regulators, particularly in Europe, in September 2008, Google announced it would shorten the time to anonymisation … security. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/technology/15googles.html …
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… Examples Date 26th June 2017 When Google launched Gmail in 2004, the new service rapidly … paying corporate customers as part of G Suite. In 2017, Google announced it would end scanning email in the consumer … among the corporate customers it was trying to court. Google still scans email for other purposes: combating spam, …
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… tell the service not to archive that posting. In 2001, Google acquired Deja News and its archive along with a … of other archives dating back to 1981 and provided a new "Google Groups" interface to search and access all its … to have search results for their name delinked. Over time, Google has subsumed Usenet search into its main search …
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… Examples Date 30th May 2005 In 2005, Google launched its web analytics service, which tracks and … traffic. The most widely-used analytics service on the web, Google Analytics comes in three versions: free, the … cookies on computers that visit the websites on which Google Analytics is installed; the cookies contain a unique …
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… access to personality reports of their contacts from Google or social media and offers real-time suggestions for …
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… opened up its profiles to public search engines such as Google and Bing. Facebook's new "public listing search" …
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… Even so, other sites such as Flickr, Photobucket, and Google's Orkut also used Akamai but were able to revoke …
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… has today published a report which shows how Facebook and Google appear to push users into sharing personal data, and … how certain GDPR related pop ups and updates by Facebook, Google , and Microsoft appear to be trying to push users …