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Absher is an app that allows men in Saudi Arabia to track women. The app is used by (at least some) men in Saudi Arabia to control where the women in their life can travel. There have been calls for Google to remove Absher from the Google Play store, but Google is ignoring those requests. Apple has also ignored requests
Google presented a white paper titled “How Google Fights Disinformation” at the Munich Security Conference. The white paper provides details about Google's work to tackle the spread of misinformation – across Google Search, Google News, YouTube and their advertising systems. One thing Google is doing is giving users more context. Here is how they do that: “Knowledge: or “Information” Panels
Announced back in October, Google+ is coming to an untimely demise on 2nd April, leaving many of us somewhat uncomfortable with the thought of having to move house over to Facebook. Never mind Facebook's total disregard for privacy, the user interface is complete rubbish... While Google+ may be ending, Google is making it easy to retrieve information from the service
How many things is your Gmail account connected to? It is definitely connected to Google+ (which will shut down soon). You might be using your Gmail account as a log in to apps or other websites. Google says it regularly resets the passwords of Google accounts affected by third-party data breaches in the event of password reuse. According to Google,
Apple has revoked Google's enterprise certificates. According to The Verge, this caused early versions of Google Maps, Hangouts, Gmail and other pre-release beta apps to stop working. It also broke Google's employee-only apps like the Gbus app for transportation and Google's internal cafe app. This comes shortly after Apple revoked Facebook's enterprise certificates. This was done because Facebook was using
Announced at CES, Philips Hue will closely integrate with Google Assistant to activate sleep and wake lighting effects to replicate the best lighting for winding down before bed time and waking up naturally in the morning. This is the first integration of the Philips Hue sleep and wake up feature with a digital assistant platform. From launch, the features will
Google had been working on a project called Dragonfly, which was being developed as censored search engine that would be used in China. The decision comes after hundreds of Google employees called on the company to cancel the project. The Intercept has a very detailed article about what Project Dragonfly was. It was a very secretive project that relied upon