by Media Release | Feb 11, 2021 | Google, Privacy, Security
Google’s acquisition of fitness tracker giant Fitbit has been completed. Both Fitbit and Google published posts on the deal, which is worth a reported $2.1 billion. These articles, after the expected platitudes, largely focus on one element: privacy. This is perhaps...
by Media Release | Jan 6, 2021 | Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
There is now a very thin line, easily broken, which separates our physical and digital identities. Social networks have evolved from the days of MySpace to valuable, data-slurping machines that have information on everything from our friends and family to our voting...
by Media Release | Dec 21, 2020 | Facebook, Google, Privacy, Security
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by Media Release | Dec 18, 2020 | Google, Privacy, Security
Google has been sued again on antitrust allegations, this time by more than 30 US states, for abusing its market power to rearrange search results to squeeze out competition. According to the legal complaint, Google methodically buried competitor sites and services in...
by Media Release | Dec 17, 2020 | Google, Privacy, Security
More than three million internet users are believed to have installed 15 Chrome, and 13 Edge extensions that contain malicious code, security firm Avast said today. The 28 extensions contained code that could perform several malicious operations. Avast said it found...
by Media Release | Dec 16, 2020 | Google, Privacy, Security
Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ With the pandemic still in full swing and the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine just starting to ship in the United States, Google has pushed back the planned return to the office by a few months, to...
