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Google has been sued in Australia for alleged misuse of personal data
Google is caught in yet another legal hassle. Australia’s competition regulator - Australian Compet…
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Whatsapp, Google, Amazon and Facebook under the scanner for data protection violations as Supreme Court calls on RBI and NPCI to investigate
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National Payments …
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Facebook has suspended 200 apps and investigated thousands of others in case they misused people's data
"To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended - pending a th…
Shona Ghosh
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Google Wouldn't Tell Us Why It Didn't Sign President Obama's Student Privacy Pledge
The pledge has some pretty specific commitments in it. Companies must promise to "not sell student …
Sam Colt
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A Facebook app developer laid out how the company is massively underplaying the risk of another Cambridge Analytica data scandal
"This is the remarkable thing about the experience of an app developer on Facebook. You can change …
Shona Ghosh
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Google fired 80 employees for abusing user data and spying on people, with some even sharing personal information outside the company, a new report says
Dozens of Google employees were fired between 2018 and 2020 for using internal tools to view person…
Katie Canales
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Google kept unencrypted, plaintext copies of some G suite business customer passwords on its servers for more than ten years
Google said the issue stemmed from giving account administrators - for instance, a company's head o…
Nick Bastone
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What you need to know in advertising today
Instagram is tweaking the algorithm everyone hated and letting users view posts the way they used t…
Tanya Dua
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Here's how to quickly check if you have a Google+ account - and delete it
In March 2018, Google became aware of a security breach that had exposed user data since 2015, the …
Sean Wolfe
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GOOGLE: US Government Spying Has Risen 122 Percent Since 2009
In 2007 a Justice Department Inspector General audit found that the FBI had indeed abused its autho…
Paul Szoldra
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You can now ask Google to stop your child's pictures from showing up in searches
The policy change is part of what the company says is its larger shift towards protecting younger u…
Emily Walsh
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The 3 killer lines in an internal memo that meant Google kept quiet about the huge Google+ data breach
"Our Privacy & Data Protection Office reviewed this issue, looking at the type of data involved…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Lawmakers say Facebook and Google are hoarding people's personal data and using it to grow in a 'feedback loop' of market power — with no intention to stop
There are hardly any other competing products people can use instead of Google and Facebook, Congre…
Aaron Holmes
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Google’s AI demo at this year’s I/O sparks a whole new ethics debate
Technology and ethics have always been at odds with each other. Ask around, many believe technology…
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OpenAI to Meta: AI companies that were accused of copyright infringement
The article discusses the legal battles faced by AI companies over copyright infringement. It highl…
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China made its first public arrest for misusing ChatGPT after a man generated fake news about a train crash that killed nine
The suspect is being held under suspicions of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" a charge tha…
Huileng Tan
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The chairman of Google's parent company says that if internet companies don't get their act together, 'bad things will occur'
To recap: Facebook has admitted that personal data on up to 87 million of its users had been gather…
Julie Bort
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The viral app that makes you look old with shocking precision may be quietly keeping all your data - but so is Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and everything else you're already using
Story after story about FaceApp describes how it could be a major security risk. You're just going …
Ben Gilbert
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The Justice Department is coming for AI: 'If your AI fixes prices, you're just as responsible'
Whether perpetrated by humans or a company's use of AI, anticompetitive practices are unlawful, the…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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A $9 billion hedge fund 'unicorn' says that in 20 years, Google won't be the tech powerhouse it is now
Even Google will not be the "powerhouse" it is now in 20 years, said Abrams. "I don't think you can…