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The New Mexico attorney general is taking on Google with a lawsuit claiming it violates students’ privacy.
Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself | Digital Trends
What looks like a win for privacy may be just the opposite
Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.
Elves on shelves are surveilling millions of children this holiday season. But that gangly doll is no match for the …
Google made the link a valuable commodity, so hackers are compromising sites and then getting paid to inject links.
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
Google has 50M people's medical records but won't merge them with other Google data.
Understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet.
Through a series of short films, video interviews, guides and resources, Exposing the Invisible looks at different techniques, tools and methods along with the individual practices of those working at the new frontiers of investigation.
Former workers reveal "questionable and misleading methods" used to obtain facial scans.
With criticism of facial recognition resulting in bans across the country, companies are looking to improve the technology. However, the New York Daily News recently found that Google's attempts to improve facial recognition resulted in questionable…
Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.
More details and allegations emerge on the search engine's tactics.
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
The FTC voted 3-2 along party lines to approve the settlement
The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google were sued in a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the hospital of sharing hundreds of thousands of patient records with the tech giant that retained identifiable date stamps and doctors' notes.
A couple of years ago, Google teamed up with the University of Chicago Medicine to improve prediction in healthcare, which could help prevent complications and save lives.
The lawsuit demonstrates the tension between building A.I. systems and protecting the privacy of patients.
“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit.’"
LOTS of data on the data Big Tech holds on us. CC-licensed, so could use illos in class.