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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found that Google misled customers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018, in a world-first enforcement action brought by the ACCC. The Guardian provided a good explanation of what happened. The Court found that Google continued to collect “Location History” and “Web & App
Google has announced that it's discontinuing support for Play Movies on smart TVs and will make purchases available on the TV's YouTube app instead. In a small posting on its support forum, Google said that from mid-June the Google Play Movies & TV app will no longer be available on Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio smart TVs. Previously purchased films
Google is facing a lawsuit that it tried (and failed) to kill. Bloomberg reported that the suit alleges that Google secretly scoops up troves of internet data even if users browse in “Incognito" mode to keep their search activity private. The case is called Brown v. Google LLC, and was brought by three plaintiffs (individually and on behalf of all
News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership with Google to provide trusted journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google. The long-term deal involves payment for premium content for Google News Showcase. Among the News Corp publications joining Google News Showcase will be The Wall Street Journal,
France is pushing for changes to the EU's legislation that would force big tech companies to pay for the news, Financial Times reported. It appears France wants changes that would allow member states to wield more power to punish bad behavior and police more types of content. French officials want to see changes to the EU's Digital Service Act, which
Financial Times reported that the EU has created legislation that would force big tech companies to pay for news. This comes after a similar Code of Conduct was proposed in Australia that would require companies like Google and Facebook to share revenue with the Australian news organizations. The EU is working on two landmark draft European digital regulations: The Digital
Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases, requested authors to refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work, Reuters reported. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult with