Google is paying people $5 for an image of all angles of their face
Google is using people’s entries to train its face authentication systems.
Senior Google engineer suggests CEO Sundar Pichai’s statements to Congress on political bias were untrue
This follows former Google engineer Mike Wacker saying Pichai lied to Congress.
Online Video Converter suspends service after YouTube crackdown
The recent blocks from YouTube have caused the website to just give up completely and only provider services for other video services.
Irish journalist Gemma O’Doherty continues to protest outside Google offices after being censored by YouTube
O’Doherty has criticized YouTube for removing her content and for targeted censorship.
US Department of Justice opens broad antitrust review into the practices of big tech companies
This comes after months of scrutiny into the alleged anti-competitive practices of many leading big tech firms.
Patent suggests Google could be developing a voice search engine for children
This follows the Google subsidiary Verily launching a creepy smart diaper with Pampers which tracks soiled diapers, sleep patterns, and more last week.
Former Facebook security exec: it’s completely reasonable to assume China has infiltrated US tech companies
People laughed when Peter Thiel made the claim. Now other experts are saying it too.
Google settles Street View car mass Wi-Fi data collection lawsuit for $13 million
The settlement cost is rather low considering the much higher recent fines for other big-tech privacy scandals.
Google fined for not censoring search results according to Russia’s blacklist
Russia issued Google with a fine for not actively censoring search results that were on its blacklist.
YouTube to MP3 and MP4 rippers have easily bypassed YouTube’s block measures
YouTube tried to block the platforms following demands from the music industry. However, the blocks were short-lived.
Google subsidiary and Pampers launch creepy smart diaper which tracks soiled diapers, sleep patterns, and more
The companies behind the smart diaper say that aggregate data collected by the diaper will be used to improve the product.
UK YouTube chief says government regulation could lead to censorship on the platform
Perhaps YouTube thinks it should be the ones to decide what’s allowed and that the government should stay away?












