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Google just announced a change for users in Europe that will let them decide exactly how much data-sharing they’re comfortable with. The new policy, which the company said was in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), allows users to opt out of data sharing across all, some, or none of a select number of Google’s services. The services listed include YouTube, Search, ad services, Google Play, Chrome, Google Shopping, and Google Maps. But the policy isn’t watertight… Source link

Newly released documents in the Arizona Attorney General’s lawsuit against tech behemoth Google reveal more details about the company’s response to reporting on its privacy policies and how Google users’ IP addresses are used to obtain exact location information.  Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s case, filed in 2020, is part of a larger investigation that has been going on since at least 2018, after an Associated Press article revealed certain… Source link

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit doesn’t think players love football as much as they did decades ago. Herbstreit criticized players who opt out of bowl games during ESPN’s “College GameDay” show on Saturday morning. The network’s top analyst openly wondered why non-playoff bowl games were “meaningless” to players who opted to skip the games to prepare for their NFL careers and said he didn’t think that expanding the College Football Playoff to include more teams and more games would prevent… Source link

YouTube users will be able to opt out of most gambling and alcohol adverts if they don’t want to see them, using tools set to be rolled out by Google in the UK next year. Google told the Guardian that it was responding to feedback from users concerned by the number of ads for alcohol and gambling that they were seeing online, both on YouTube and on third-party websites. It is already possible to adjust the content of personalised ads, which are based on users’ browsing history, via… Source link

Google is adding a new option to let users opt out of having their Gmail, Chat, and Meet data used to offer smart features like Smart Compose and Smart Reply, the company announced today. Although you’ve previously been able to toggle these individual features on and off, the new toggle disables the background data processing that makes them possible. Google says the new option will roll out “in the coming weeks.” According to images posted on Google’s blog, Gmail users will be… Source link