The Texas attorney general filed a privacy lawsuit against Google on Thursday, accusing the internet company of collecting Texans’ facial and voice recognition information without their explicit consent. Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said Google had violated a state consumer protection law that requires companies to inform citizens and get their consent before capturing their biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints and a “record of hand or face… Source link
Read More »Texas sues Google for allegedly capturing biometric data of millions without consent
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Texas has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google for allegedly collecting biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent, the attorney general’s office said in a statement on Thursday. The complaint says that companies operating in Texas have been barred for more than a decade from collecting people’s faces, voices or other biometric data without advanced, informed consent. “In blatant defiance of that law, Google has, since at… Source link
Read More »3 Tools to Build, Validate Schema Markup
Search engines have long desired a uniform method to understand websites. Search bots cannot necessarily discern a site’s meaning from crawling its code. Is it a store or a blog? A recipe site or gardening? That’s the purpose of structured data. It’s a 1990s concept of organizing a site’s info to help search engines understand it. But the rise of the web produced many types of structured data, not the uniformity desired by search engines. Enter Schema.org. It’s a type… Source link
Read More »3 Tools to Build, Validate Schema Markup
Search engines have long desired a uniform method to understand websites. Search bots cannot necessarily discern a site’s meaning from crawling its code. Is it a store or a blog? A recipe site or gardening? That’s the purpose of structured data. It’s a 1990s concept of organizing a site’s info to help search engines understand it. But the rise of the web produced many types of structured data, not the uniformity desired by search engines. Enter Schema.org. It’s a type… Source link
Read More »India fines Google $162 million for anti-competitive practices on Android • TechCrunch
India’s antitrust watchdog fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices in “multiple markets” in a major setback for the search giant in the key overseas nation where it has poured billions of dollars over the past decade. The Competition Commission of India, which began investigating Google several years ago after complaints from local firms, said in its order that Google requiring device… Source link
Read More »Paxton Sues Google for its Unauthorized Capture and Use of Biometric Data and Violation of Texans’ Privacy
Attorney General Paxton has sued Google, alleging that the tech giant has unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent to do so. The lawsuit alleges that Google, in yet another violation of Texans’ privacy, has collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, from Texans through its products and services like Google Photos, Google… Source link
Read More »Stocks teeter as earnings roll in, jobless claims drop
U.S. stocks continued a streak of choppy trading to start Thursday as third-quarter financial results from companies continued to barrel in against a backdrop of persisting growth concerns on Wall Street. The major indices wavered to start the session, then steadily climbed throughout the morning. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) was up about 1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) moved up 350 points, or 1.2%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was up 1.3%. Meanwhile, Treasury yields… Source link
Read More »Google Messages adds reaction support for iPhone texts and in-app reminders • TechCrunch
Google has left no stones unturned in pushing Apple to adopt the Rich Communication Services (RCS) that the search giant argues will improve cross-platform communication. With little to no luck so far, Google is marching ahead with things that are within its power: Supercharging its RCS client Messages on Android with new features to make lives a little easier for those on the other side of the green bubbles. Google’s Messages is adding a slew of new features… Source link
Read More »Google Messages adds reaction support for iPhone texts and in-app reminders • TechCrunch
Google has left no stones unturned in pushing Apple to adopt the Rich Communication Services (RCS) that the search giant argues will improve cross-platform communication. With little to no luck so far, Google is marching ahead with things that are within its power: supercharging its RCS client Messages on Android with new features to make lives a little easier for those on the other side of the green bubbles. Google’s Messages is adding a slew of new features… Source link
Read More »Google activates Israel’s first local cloud region
JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) on Thursday activated a local cloud region for Israel, offering cloud services to the country’s government and military in a move expected to boost jobs and economic growth. Israel signed a deal with Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) in May 2021 for the more than $1 billion four-phase “Nimbus” project. As part of the project, billions of shekels will be invested in local infrastructure, Israel’s Finance Ministry said in a… Source link
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