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Google sued over 'discriminatory' spam filtering practices in US [details]

Google has been sued in the US by the Republican National Committee (RNC) for allegedly sending "millions" of campaign emails to the spam folders of users.

Oct 23, 2022

Google to soon allow people to translate local news directly in Search [details]

"In early 2023, we'll launch a new feature that will give people a simple way to find translated news coverage using machine translation," said the company.

Sep 29, 2022

Google makes it simpler, provides new option to remove personal info from search directly

Google's "Results about you" tool, announced during its annual developer conference earlier this year, is now rolling out to some users, reports 9to5Google.

Sep 22, 2022

NASA, Google to help track air pollution at local level with AI

NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time.

Sep 16, 2022

Security update: Google warns users to quickly update Chrome to avoid hacking risk

Google has advised its users to immediately install a security update in its Chrome browser to safeguard themselves against a serious bug being actively exploited by hackers.

Sep 6, 2022

India users shoot 37,173 complaints to Google in July, up 13%; Mostly copyright violation

"The complaints consist of various categories. Some requests may allege infringement of intellectual property rights, while others claim violation of local laws prohibiting types of content on grounds such as defamation," Google said in a statement.

Sep 3, 2022

US Department of Justice likely to probe Apple over anti-market practices

After taking on Meta (Facebook) and Google with antitrust lawsuits, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly drafting an antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the company "abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies, including app developers and competing hardware makers".

Aug 27, 2022

Parliamentary panel on finance to submit report on competitive laws in Digital Market

The Standing Committee on Finance headed by BJP MP and former Union minister Jayant Sinha will submit its report to the Parliament in September on how competition laws that regulate competitive conduct should evolve to deal with competitive behavioural issues in digital markets.

Aug 24, 2022

iOS VPN app security "broken": cybersecurity researcher; Apple says issue fixed

Apple insists it has offered a fix since 2019, while ProtonVPN says that it's only a partial solution, reports 9to5Mac.

Aug 20, 2022

Google blocks largest ever web DDoS cyber attack on single customer; Equivalent to Wikipedia's one-day visits

DDoS cyber-attacks are increasing in frequency and growing in size exponentially.

Aug 20, 2022

Google Play to hide app permissions; makes developers responsible for data collection [details]

Google is set to no longer show permissions it automatically gathers from apps on its Play Store, giving developers control over what they wish to disclose to users on data collection.

Jul 18, 2022

Streaming platform 'YouTube TV' hits 5 mn subscribers in 5 years

Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has announced that YouTube TV is celebrating 5 million subscribers and testers in five years.

Jul 13, 2022

Google warns high-profile Android victims of spyware used by governments 'Hermit'

Google has found strong evidence that enterprise-grade Android spyware called 'Hermit' is being used via SMS messages to target high-profile Android users.

Jun 24, 2022

Google becomes first to pay Wikimedia Foundation to access its content

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, has announced that Google is one of the first companies to buy its commercial Enterprise service.

Jun 23, 2022

Odisha EOW asks Google to remove 45 'illegal' loan apps from Play Store

The Odisha Police's Economic Offences Wing has asked Google Inc to immediately remove 45 'fake' loan apps from the Google Play Store.

Jun 10, 2022

Google contractors flag concerns over being underpaid by recruiting agency [details]

A group of Google contractors have called out a recruitment agency over being underpaid for a long time, amounting to thousands of dollars in unpaid wages per affected worker, media reports said.

Jun 8, 2022

Google disables bombardment of RCS ads in India after brands went on hype

After several companies and brands abused Google Messages' RCS (Rich Communication Services) feature in India to bombard users with multiple ads without their consent, the tech company has decided to turn off RCS ads functionality in the country.

Jun 2, 2022

Apple, Google face scrutiny over collecting abortion data

A group of US senators have urged the tech giants Apple and Google to prohibit the apps in their app stores from collecting data that could be used to identify women seeking abortions, media reports say.

May 29, 2022

Google ropes in ex-US FDA digital health chief

Tech giant Google has roped in a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leader Bakul Patel as its new senior director of global digital health strategy.

May 17, 2022

Google-led internet giants behind biggest data breach ever recorded: Report

Call it mother of all data security breaches as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) on Monday revealed that Google and other internet giants are processing and passing people's data billions of times per day via real-time-bidding (RTB) system for tracking and ad targeting.