Tag Archives: Privacy

Bloomberg Indonesia Aims for V-Shaped Recovery After Disappointing GDP (Bloomberg) — Indonesia is setting its sights on a sharp turnaround starting this quarter as it assembles more stimulus programs to lift stubbornly weak domestic demand.Gross domestic product declined 0.74% in the first quarter from a year ago, the statistics bureau said Wednesday, worse than the median estimate of -0.65% in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Still, it represented an improvement from the 2.19% contraction… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s first office was a cluttered Silicon Valley garage crammed with desks resting on sawhorses. In 2003, five years after its founding, the company moved into a sprawling campus called the Googleplex. The airy, open offices and whimsical common spaces set a standard for what an innovative workplace was supposed to look like. Over the years, the amenities piled up. The food was free, and so were buses to and from work: Getting to the office, and staying there… Source link

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s become a teensy bit trendy to trash Google and its position on privacy these days. This wiggly ol’ web of ours has always spent a fair amount of energy focusing on how Google uses personal data, of course — and that’s a good thing. We absolutely should be aware of how companies do and don’t tap into our information. Lately, though, the conversation has turned especially heated, with a growing chorus of virtual voices… Source link

Over the first half of April 2021, “a switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web,” tweeted the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization defending privacy and civil liberties in the digital world. The EFF further wrote that while FLoC, Federated Learning of Cohorts, is… Source link

The unique device identifier that Apple uses for personalized ad tracking, the IDFA, has been in the news lately. You may soon be hearing just as much about Google’s equivalent for Android, the Android Advertising Identifier (AAID). Unlike Apple, Google is not voluntarily throttling the third-party tracking of Android users that the AAID facilitates. But it is facing a new privacy complaint in the EU brought by noyb, the group that disrupted EU-US data transfers… Source link

Many websites use cookies to track your behavior. That’s not always bad; cookies are used to make essential features work, such as keeping you logged in to an account or remembering the items you’ve added to a shopping cart. But many sites use cookies operated by other companies, or third parties, for purposes such as targeted advertising.  Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari already include settings to let you block third-party cookies. You may get further protections from such… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Two advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether apps that Google’s Play Store labels as “Teacher approved” are unlawfully collecting personal data without parental consent to target ads at children. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain, November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo (Reuters) – Two advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether apps that Google’s Play Store labels as “Teacher approved” are unlawfully collecting personal data without parental consent to target ads at children. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital… Source link

Improve your browsing privacy getty Google is currently being sued in California because it continues to track people even when using Google Chrome’s Incognito mode. The very name ‘Incognito’ gives the impression that anything you do online won’t be tracked, but that’s most certainly not the case with Chrome Incognito. Even with Incognito mode switched on, the Chrome browser will still allow websites to collect information about your surfing habits during that… Source link

Google recently updated its privacy labels for a majority of its apps listed on App Store, following the revision in policies by Apple making it mandatory for all apps to divulge in their data sharing practices. These new privacy labels show up in every app listing on App Store under the App Privacy section and it details the kind of data that is tracked or collected by the app. It also gives you clarity on the purpose for which this data may be used like for serving third-party… Source link