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Consumer data privacy breach spells lawsuit for Alphabet’s Google in Australia

Posted on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019By Editor

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, alleging that the company misled smartphone users on how personal location data was being collected, kept and used. … Read More >Consumer data privacy breach spells lawsuit for Alphabet’s Google in Australia

USA

Google Engineer Leaks Nearly 1,000 Pages of Internal Documents of Bias, Censorship

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019By Editor

A former Google engineer has released nearly 1,000 pages of documents that he says prove that the company, at least in some of its products, secretly boosts or demotes content based on what it deems to be true or false, while publicly claiming to be a neutral platform. … Read More >Google Engineer Leaks Nearly 1,000 Pages of Internal Documents of Bias, Censorship

‘Movie Idiocracy is a reality!’ Google gets to chug millions of gallons of drinking water from dwindling aquifer to cool servers

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019By Editor

Google has been given the go-ahead to pump some 550 million gallons of clean drinking water per year to cool servers at its sprawling data center in South Carolina, sparking outrage and fears the company will deplete the supply. … Read More >‘Movie Idiocracy is a reality!’ Google gets to chug millions of gallons of drinking water from dwindling aquifer to cool servers

World

Google to face mass action over claims it accessed 4 MILLION iPhone users’ data

Posted on October 6, 2019By Editor

The Court of Appeal in London has given the go-ahead for mass action against Google over claims it illegally accessed the data of over 4 million iPhone users, overturning an earlier high court ruling against redress. … Read More >Google to face mass action over claims it accessed 4 MILLION iPhone users’ data

Op-ed

Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent

Posted on October 2, 2019October 3, 2019By Editor

The promise of technology, we were once told, is to liberate us to achieve our true potential. … Read More >Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent

World

Google retaliated against employees who reported abuse, internal document claims

Posted on October 2, 2019By Editor

A leaked document tells 45 stories of Google employees who claim they’ve experienced sexual harassment … Read More >Google retaliated against employees who reported abuse, internal document claims

Google Becomes Evil

Posted on September 28, 2019November 17, 2019By Editor

Why is the tech giant censoring alternative web sites? … Read More >Google Becomes Evil