- First major fine (€ 1 million) for using Google Analyticsnoyb.eu noyb win: First major fine (€ 1 million) for using Google Analytics
Swedish data protection authority (IMY) issued decisions against four companies and imposed a fine of 12 mio SEK (1 mio Euro) against Tele2 and 300.000 SEK against CDON
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/132703
> Swedish data protection authority (IMY) issued decisions against four companies and imposed a fine of 12 mio SEK (1 mio Euro) against Tele2 and 300.000 SEK against CDON
- EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust rulingwww.theverge.com EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling
The European Commission targets Google’s core business.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1252683
> The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business. In a preliminary opinion, the regulator says Google has abused its dominant position in the digital advertising market. It says that forcing Google to sell off parts of its business may be the only remedy, if the company is found guilty of the charges.
- Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court, judge findsarstechnica.com Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court
Google in trouble for auto-deleting chats needed as evidence in Epic Games case.
- Google will soon default to blurring explicit image search results, and require login to disablearstechnica.com Google will soon default to blurring explicit image search results
The setting can be disabled, except for supervised accounts.
- EU upholds Google’s 4.1B euro fine for bundling search with Androidarstechnica.com EU upholds Google’s 4.1B euro fine for bundling search with Android
Google will have to pay the EU's biggest fine ever.
- "very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing ..."
source code: https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller
- Google's Ranks are Filled with CIA Agentswww.mintpressnews.com National Security Search Engine: Google's Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents
MintPress has found that Google, in recent years, has a slew of CIA former agents. Alan Macleod reveals the details of the murky relationship
- Italy's Antitrust authority opens probe into Google - Web giant defends itself over interoperability of datawww.ansa.it Antitrust opens probe into Google - English
Web giant defends itself over interoperability of data © ANSA
cross-posted from: https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-5162-d01e-fdcd-2ff594512428
> Italy's Antitrust authority opens probe into Google > Web giant defends itself over interoperability of data > > (ANSA) - ROME, JUL 14 - Italy's antitrust authority said Thursday that it has opened a probe into Google for allegedly abusing its dominant market position. > The watchdog said Google allegedly hampered the interoperability of data sharing on its platform with other platforms. > "These tools enable people to extract and transfer their data," Google said. > "These tools are designed to help people manage their personal information, and not give other companies or intermediaries access to more data to sell". > Last year the authority on fined Google and Apple 10 million euros each for two breaches of the consumer code, one for a lack of information and the other for aggressive practices linked to the acquisition and use of consumer data for commercial purposes. (ANSA). > > www.ansa.it/english/news/2022/…
- Google donates to LGBT+ equality groups, but also to political parties obsessed with exterminating LGBT+ peopleblog.google Finding belonging in LGBTQ+ spaces
Google is building on our commitment to the LGBTQ+ community. Googlers are participating in local Pride marches and donating to nonprofits.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/288296
> https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/pride-2022/ > > https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-donated-tens-of-thousands-to-republicans-this-year-2021-4
- Google just tripled its bounty for Linux kernel bugswww.zdnet.com Google just tripled its bounty for Linux kernel bugs. Here's why
Linux is everywhere and it needs extra protection, according to Google.
- How data becomes money - the price we pay for keeping web content freewww.irishexaminer.com Cianan Brennan: How data becomes money - the price we pay for keeping web content free
The convenience companies such as Google have brought to modern living is undeniable — and the company says that it never technically sells our information to third parties. But are we sacrificing too much of our privacy just to make our online lives easier to manage? Cianan Brennan reports
One of the endless criticisms in the endless debate on the rights and wrongs of present-day big tech and the quest for data accountability is the idea that users of such tech are effectively walking cash-generators for the corporate behemoths.
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- Google wants us to shut down dezoomifygithub.com Google wants us to shut down dezoomify · Issue #435 · lovasoa/dezoomify
Hello everyone, My name is Ophir, and I created the zoomable image downloader dezoomify several years ago, while I was still in high school. I have been maintaining dezoomify as a free and opensour...