Tag Archives: Privacy

The all-in-one tag that Google teased in May during Marketing Live 2022 is here. The official announcement appears on the company’s Ads & Commerce Blog. The purpose of the update is to future-proof privacy concerns and streamline sitewide tagging. The status of third-party cookies remains unclear as Google has repeatedly extended the Chrome date for removing them. Nonetheless, visitors to websites expect cookie transparency. The new tag aims to quell these concerns while… Source link

When police are trying to solve a crime, they often turn to Google for help. It makes sense since the Silicon Valley giant has grown into a nearly $1.6 trillion company on the strength of its most valuable asset: Data on billions of people. And often, finding out where someone was at the time of a crime, or what they were Googling before a crime occurs, can be pivotal to investigators. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade,… Source link

Safe-T Group Ltd. The New Desktop Privacy Solution Prevents a User’s Personal Data, Online Activity and History from Being Accessed or Monitored by Internet Service Providers, Advertisers and Third Parties HERZLIYA, Israel, July 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Safe-T Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: SFET) (TASE: SFET) (“Safe-T” or the “Company”), a global provider of cyber-security and privacy solutions for consumers and enterprises, today announced its entrance into the home computer market with… Source link

(Google; The Washington Post illustration) In post-Roe America, Google searches and location records can be evidence of a crime. Here are four ways Google should protect civil rights in its products now. July 1, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Placeholder while article actions load We the users want Google to delete our data. Our rights depend on it. This is a moment I’ve long worried would arrive. The way tens of millions of Americans use everyday Google products has suddenly become dangerous. Following… Source link

BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday. In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia have taken their gripes to their data protection authorities, BEUC said. It said the German consumer body… Source link

Consumer groups from several European countries on Thursday plan to file formal complaints to regulators alleging that Google violates privacy rules and doesn’t inform users of how their data from across the company’s services is used to target advertisements. Google makes it simple for users to click one button to share their data when signing up to a service; opting out, however, requires several additional clicks, the complaints say. The Alphabet Inc. unit… Source link

Antitrust action is desperately needed to reel in the practices of Big Tech companies, especially around privacy, Google’s former head of advertising said Tuesday. Driving the news: Competition in tech is needed to ensure people are able to have private online experiences, because large companies like Google will never truly care about user privacy, Sridhar Ramaswamy said during an onstage interview with Axios in Toronto at the Collision Conference. Ramaswamy spent 15 years running Google’s… Source link

Google has agreed to pay $100 million to Illinois residents to settle a class-action lawsuit over one of its facial recognition features in Google Photos (via Gizmodo). The complaint alleges Google’s face grouping tool, which automatically identifies your face in photos and videos uploaded to Photos, violates Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Introduced in 2008, the BIPA bars companies from collecting and storing any sort of biometric data, including a “retina or… Source link

ROCKFORD, Ill. — Illinois residents are eligible to receive part of a $100 million class-action settlement after Google was accused of violating privacy laws in the state. The tech giant was accused of violating the Biometric Information Privacy Act regarding its use of a face regrouping tool in the Google Photos app. Google used the tool to sort faces it spots in photographs by similarity. However, according to the suit, the company did not receive consent from millions of users before… Source link

Last year, Apple added App Tracking Transparency to iOS, and the shift in the flow of data from mobile users was enough to unsettle even Facebook. Now, Google, which relies on targeted advertising for its business model, is preparing its own multi-year adjustment to mobile ad tracking and privacy. Starting today, app developers can get their first look at the new system, as the first developer preview of Privacy Sandbox on Android rolls out, following the path of similar tests in… Source link