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By combining Google Maps traffic information with a radar image that showed troops, Lewis and his team realized an invasion was underway hours before the news became public and from thousands of miles away in California. Russia officially announced its assault on Ukraine on Thursday morning, which President Biden called “unprovoked and unjustified.” Story continues below advertisement “In the old days, we would have relied on a reporter to show us what was happening on the ground,”… Source link

INDIANAPOLIS – A bipartisan group of attorneys general is suing Google, claiming the tech giant can track your location even when you believe that setting is turned off in your account. “When you carry your smartphone around or you interact with Google, you are giving up a tremendous amount of your privacy,” said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is among those taking legal action. The lawsuits allege Google misled its users between at least 2014 and 2019. They… Source link

Elon Musk.Picture Alliance/Getty Images The teen who went viral for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet got a job offer out of the saga. The New York Post said Jack Sweeney was offered work with Stratos Jet Charters. Musk previously offered Sweeney $5,000 to shut down the account and has since blocked the teen. The teen who went viral for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter has gotten a job offer out of that pursuit. Jack Sweeney, 19, has been offered work with the Orlando, Florida,… Source link

Elon Musk in 2021 at a press event on the grounds of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin.Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images 19-year-old Jack Sweeney runs a Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet. Musk offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove it and give advice on how to make his jet less trackable. Sweeney told Insider he thought $5,000 was too low for the satisfaction he gets from the work. A 19-year-old who was offered $5,000 by Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking… Source link

The Super Bowl is just over two weeks away, and that means you might be in the market for a new big screen TV. But before you pull out your credit card, you should know about your next TV. You know, beyond that you should get a 65-inch OLED and have it shipped to my address. Namely how to disable some of the tracking features built into your new set. That’s right, like everything else with an internet connection, your television tracks what you watch, for how long, when you watch it, what… Source link

When Google announced a plan to block digital tracking cookies from its Chrome web browser two years ago, the advertising industry and regulators worried that the proposal would further entrench the search giant’s dominance over online ads. The outcry eventually forced Google to delay its rollout by nearly two years to late 2023. On Tuesday, Google said it was scrapping its old plan and offered a new way to block third-party trackers in Chrome with an online advertising system called Topics…. Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google sued in US over ‘deceptive’ location tracking  BBC News Source link

The parallel lawsuits by the District of Columbia, Texas, Indiana and Washington state zero in on Google’s collection of location data, which can be used to target advertising and build profiles on internet users. The DC Attorney General’s lawsuit alleges that since 2014, Google (GOOG) has made misleading public statements about how users can opt out of location tracking. Despite offering settings in users’ Google accounts that promised to restrict location data tracking, Google allegedly… Source link

Attorneys general from the District of Columbia and three states sued Google on Monday, claiming the search giant misled consumers to gain access to their location data. The lawsuits from D.C., Indiana, Texas and Washington allege Alphabet Inc.’s Google GOOGL, -4.18% GOOG, -3.88% deceived users from at least 2014 to 2019 by leading them to believe that turning off “location history” settings would stop tracking… Source link

Washington, D.C., and two states filed new lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.15% Google, accusing it of deceiving consumers by recording their location even after users tried to turn off the company’s tracking. Google falsely told customers that if they opted out of collection of their “Location History” or other settings, Google wouldn’t store the places they went, according to a lawsuit… Source link