Google announced Monday that it will spend more than $1 billion to build a new campus in New York City, a major expansion that could add more than 7,000 jobs to the area. The announcement comes just days after Apple said it will build new offices across the United States, a plan that includes adding […]
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Google reveals new security bug affecting more than 52 million users
Google revealed Monday that its soon-to-be shuttered social network suffered from another security lapse, a software bug that could have allowed third-party apps and developers to gain access to 52 million users’ personal information without their permission. For six days in November, an update to the underlying code of Google+ meant that apps seeking to […]
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Google employees walkout over allegations of sexual harassment
At Google offices around the world Thursday, employees are walking off the job and taking to the streets to protest what organizers are calling “a culture of complicity, dismissiveness and support for perpetrators” tied to sexual harassment and abuse. The walkout comes a week after the New York Times revealed that Google had suppressed allegations […]
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Google+ to be shut down after discovering exposure of user data
Google will close most of its failing social media platform Google+ and implement several new privacy measures after discovering that hundreds of thousands of users potentially had their personal data exposed because of a previously undisclosed software bug, the company announced Monday. The bug, discovered in March during an internal company review, could have allowed […]
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Here's what we really know about Google
President Donald Trump thinks Google’s search engine is “rigged.” By featuring more mainstream news outlets and relatively fewer conservative sites in the results he sees, Trump tweeted Tuesday, Google is “suppressing” right-wing views on its platform. Trump escalated his attacks Tuesday afternoon in remarks from the Oval Office, warning that “Google and Twitter and Facebook, […]
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Google denies Trump charge it rigs 'Trump News' searches
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing Google and other U.S. tech companies of rigging search results about him “so that almost all stories & news is BAD” — and though he is offering no evidence, a top adviser says the White House is “taking a look” at whether Google should face federal regulation. […]
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How to hide from Google
Turning off the location tracking on your phone isn’t enough to stop Google from receiving any information about where you are, an Associated Press investigation revealed this week. Even if someone goes into their Google account settings to turn off a feature that logs their location, the AP reported, the tech giant still receives a […]
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How to hide from Google
Turning off the location tracking on your phone isn’t enough to stop Google from receiving any information about where you are, an Associated Press investigation revealed this week. Even if someone goes into their Google account settings to turn off a feature that logs their location, the AP reported, the tech giant still receives a […]
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FBI wanted Google data to help solve Portland-area robberies
The investigation to solve a recent string of armed robberies in the Portland area involved a sweeping demand for Google user location data by the FBI, according to court documents. The court-approved demand, first reported on by Forbes magazine, would have included data on every Google location services user in the area of two or more […]
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Google is tracking your movements whether you like it or not
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will […]