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Google users not given sufficient choice over its data processing, says German antitrust watchdog • TechCrunch
Bad news for Google in Germany — where the antitrust watchdog has issued a preliminary statement of objections over its data processing terms and said it’s currently planning to require the tech giant to provide users with more choice over what it does with their information. The Bundeskartellamt, or Federal Cartel Office (FCO), has been investigating Google’s T&Cs for processing user data since May 2021. At issue is how Google collects and connects user data across multiple… Source link
Read More »Russia prepared for 8 years to be cut off from the West. Meet the payment system that’s still processing its credit card transactions
Since the start of the Ukraine War, a barrage of western sanctions has crippled the Russian economy and wreaked havoc on its financial system. The country has been largely cut off from the international payment system SWIFT, seen its access to $630 billion in foreign exchange reserves restricted, and watched as more than $17 billion in assets were seized from Russian oligarchs. But for the past eight years, Russia has been preparing for the worst. In June of 2014, just three months after its… Source link
Read More »Google’s New HDR+ With Bracketing Photo Processing Cleverness
Google HDR+ with Bracketing example, shot on a Pixel 4A 5G. Google One of the main reasons I’ve stuck with Pixel phones over the last few years has been the quality of the photos. Sure, other phones have offered higher resolutions, more advanced sensors, but thanks to Google’s clever processing, the quality of the images from the Pixel’s camera have been among the best you can get. Which as a photographer, that’s key. They keep tweaking that processing, and the latest… Source link
Read More »Google’s Jigsaw Announces Toxicity-Reducing API, Perspective, is Processing 500M Requests Daily
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Jigsaw, a unit within Google that forecasts and confronts emerging digital threats, announced that Perspective, a free, open source API that uses machine learning to spot toxic comments, is now processing 500 million requests daily and is measurably reducing toxicity to make conversations online better at scale. The third issue of the company’s online research magazine, The Current, which was published today, details the persistent and damaging… Source link
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