Google plans to purge users’ abortion-related data, including location entries showing visits to abortion clinics, as states pass new abortion restrictions following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Amazon, Facebook and Google will face calls for racial-equity audits and other race-related proposals, with the first two voting on the anniversary of death that sparked calls for change.
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Apple, Google, Airbnb, and many other companies cut off Russian customers this week in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In April 2021, Apple enabled iPhone users to choose which apps are allowed to track their behavior across other apps. As a result, the vast majority of users opted out.
Google has mandated weekly COVID-19 tests and surgical masks for employees at its facilities as Omicron infections rise, accounting for more than 98 percent of cases in the United States.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, landed the top spot on JUST Capital’s subjective list of top ESG [Environmental, Social, Governance] stocks.
That the US (specifically, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen) cheered a few weeks ago when it managed to cobble together an international deal via the OECD - or at least a framework for said deal - to create a new global minimum corporate tax. The deal looks something like this. Countries like Ireland with among the lowest base corporate tax rates have agreed to raise them, and in exchange, the US will allow other countries to take a bigger piece of tax action from American multinationals - particularly tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google owner Alphabet.
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple's attempts to offer its users great privacy protections, 12 state attorneys general alleged in an update to an antitrust lawsuit against the search engine.
Late Thursday, Google announced that it is demonetizing content that makes misleading or false claims about climate change. As a result, content that calls into question or denies the scientific consensus around anthropogenic climate change will not have Google advertising alongside it. In addition, Google will no longer run any advertising that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.”
China has been taking advantage of a ‘data void’ in order to flood social media platforms with Chinese-backed conspiracy theories regarding the origins of Covid-19, which in turn affects algorithmic results from popular search engines such as Google and Bing, according to the Washington Post, citing a Tuesday report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD).
Google and Facebook may finally be treed. A new, robust, and bipartisan consensus is appalled by the way “Big Tech” has used its monopoly power to turn the Internet into a toxic stew of disinformation, extremism, digital piracy, and crime, twisting the vision of an open Internet into a private preserve that exists only to pad the Silicon Valley bottom line. Whistleblowers are crawling out of the woodwork exposing the depths of Facebook’s knowing misdeeds. No wonder over 80 percent of registered voters say the government should do everything it can to rein them in.
Technology giant Google has launched an “antiracism” initiative that presents speakers and materials claiming that America is a “system of white supremacy” and that all Americans are “raised to be racist.”
Tech community critics of Ohio’s suit to rein in Google’s abuse of its search engine dominance misunderstand both the case and the law. It is critical for those in the tech to understand why we are all on the same side. Self-preferencing is the evil we fight in suit against Google. Google Search controls 92% of search globally. Google has long used its dominance of search to advance its other business lines.
Zoom users to get $15 or $25 each in proposed settlement of class-action lawsuit. Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and the filers of a class-action lawsuit also covers security problems that led to rampant “Zoombombings.”
