Some of the country’s most powerful state attorneys general are signaling they’re willing to take action against Facebook, Google and other tech giants, warning that the companies have grown too big and powerful – and that Washington has been too slow to respond. For many of these top law enforcement officials, the fear is that […]
LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement…
Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came […]
Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search…
Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine for China and say they are concerned that development of the project remains ongoing, The Intercept can reveal. Late last year, bosses moved engineers away from working on the controversial project, known as Dragonfly, and said that […]
Horrifying: Suicide Tips for Children Found on YouTube’s Kids Section…
A Florida mother has discovered shocking YouTube videos which give children instructions on how to kill themselves. Free Hess said she found a cartoon on YouTube Kids – described by the Google-owned site as a ‘family friendly’ version – in which a man showed youngsters how to slit their wrists effectively. In the clip a man signals […]
Surprise!: Google’s Nest Guard Home Alarm’s Have Built-in Microphones Consumers Weren’t Told About…
Google said Wednesday it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system, the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry’s leading collectors of personal information. The company said earlier this month that its voice assistant feature would be available on the system’s Nest Guard, which controls […]
I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants from My Life. It Was Hell…
A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my […]
Microsoft Blacklist: NewsGuard Warns Breitbart Is ‘Fake News’ 29 Times on Single Google Page…
NewsGuard, the browser extension that rates the “trustworthiness” of news outlets, and is run by establishment media figures along with former Clinton, Obama and Bush administration members, warns that Breitbart News is “Fake News” 29 times in one Google search. Newsguard, a news publication ranking extension endorsed by Microsoft and included as a standard extension […]
Google Manipulates Search Results on ‘Controversial’ Topics, Report Says…
Google tweaks search results on topics the company deems “controversial,” two Google sources revealed to Breitbart. Sometimes, the company even changes the results manually—something its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, denied in sworn testimony. Among the singled out topics were abortion, gun-control activist David Hogg, the February 2018 An-148 Russian plane crash, the December 2018 Strasbourg […]
French Watchdog Slaps Google with $57M Fine Under New EU Law…
France’s data privacy watchdog has fined Google 50 million euros ($57 million), the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect last year. The National Data Protection Commission said Monday it fined the U.S. internet giant for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent” […]
‘Disrespectful’: Google Employees Melt Down Over The Word ‘Family’…
A Google executive sparked a fierce backlash from employees by using the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation, according to internal documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Many Google employees became angry that the term was used while discussing a product aimed at children, because it implied that families have children, the […]
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