Texans should be very concerned about Google’s use of consumer data and privacy policies that are disguised by indecipherable legalese. New evidence and investigations have revealed much regarding Google’s data collection and its abuse of such information. Alarming evidence reveals how Google is providing the Federal Government information about users who search for particular terms. Imagine being contacted or questioned because you simply searched someone’s… Source link
Read More »Google and Amazon fined €135M over misuse of cookies by French data watchdog
France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of €135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country’s data protection laws. Google was fined a total of €100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined €35 million (around $42 million). In both cases, CNIL’s complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company’s… Source link
Read More »Alphabet’s Google Pledges Not to Misuse Fitbit Health and Fitness Data
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) is attempting to make nice with European regulators. On Monday, the U.S. tech giant promised that it will not leverage the fitness and health data generated by Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) to target advertising. Alphabet’s Google unit signed an agreement to buy the fitness tech company… Source link
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