Hacker News
- Galago – your personal Google http://galago.me/start 2 comments
- Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-39565 51 comments
- Bitcoin Is Just The Beginning Imagine a personal-identity service that gives us control over selling our personal data. Right now, Google and Facebook reap the profit. http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-is-just-the-beginning-1464302194 21 comments technology
- I created a productivity tool that works like a personal Google for your stuff but with better search https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/nv5gg9/i_created_a_productivity_tool_that_works_like_a/ 3 comments productivity
- Australia's regulator sues Google over personal data use https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-australia/australias-regulator-sues-google-over-personal-data-use-iduskcn24r0vq 8 comments technology
- Google Sued By ACCC Over Misuse Of Personal Data https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356?pfmredir=sm&sf222434764=1 3 comments worldnews
- Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-accused-of-secretly-feeding-personal-data-to-advertisers-1.4007629 71 comments technology
- Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-accused-of-secretly-feeding-personal-data-to-advertisers-1.4007629 39 comments europe
- Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/02/05/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking/ 10 comments worldnews
- How Google Tracks Your Personal Information https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d 13 comments privacy
- Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking 98 comments privacy
- Who here has ACTUALLY connected LibreOffice to Google Drive, personally, themselves? http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/593759.html 5 comments libreoffice
- Fetching - Your own personal Google http://fetching.io/ 3 comments software
- Google has received over 41,000 requests to 'forget' personal information http://www.itworld.com/networking/421740/google-has-received-over-41000-requests-forget-personal-information 4 comments privacy
- Google Inc said its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed http://www.reuters.com/article/idustre69l4kw20101022 27 comments technology
- German authorities declare the use of web analytics tools such as Google Analytics is illegal without the consent of the person being tracked. http://www.research-live.com/features/the-new-rules-of-web-analytics-in-germany/4001603.article 4 comments reddit.com
- Google Docs introduces their personal assistant, Cliply http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-14.html 8 comments technology
- Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/12/4/18124718/google-search-results-personalized-unique-duckduckgo-filter-bubble 17 comments duckduckgo
- Scientists at Google and Stanford were able to predict a person's blood pressure, age, and smoking status by analyzing a photo of their eye using machine learning. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00004-w 10 comments science
- Not OK, Google: the actual price for building a “personal Google for everyone, everywhere” would in fact be zero privacy for everyone, everywhere. https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/not-ok-google/ 10 comments privacy
- Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests: Data shows 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens out to protect personal and private information – not criminals, politicians and public figures http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/google-accidentally-reveals-right-to-be-forgotten-requests 1078 comments technology
- Google disrupts targeted phishing attacks against personal e-mails and gives a few more tips on how to keep your Gmail safe. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html 10 comments netsec
- Google wins in historic ‘right to be forgotten’ fight with France; Google won its fight against tougher "right to be forgotten" rules after Europe's top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/google-wins-in-historic-right-to-be-forgotten-fight-with-france-6024249/ 3 comments worldnews
- Google Play Services now lets you delete your advertising ID when you opt out of ad personalization (Android 12 only) https://www.xda-developers.com/google-play-services-delete-ad-id-opt-out-personalization/ 26 comments degoogle
- A person dressed up like the guy from Monopoly sat behind Google's CEO as he testified before Congress https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/monopoly-man-returns-to-congress-for-google-ceo-pichais-hearing.html 21 comments politics
- Which non-development tools (e.g. google analytics) are ubiquitous for personal websites? https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6krzgc/which_nondevelopment_tools_eg_google_analytics/ 8 comments webdev
- NY Attorney wants Google to provide personal information of reviewer who wrote, “It was horrible” http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/attorney-wants-google-to-unmask-reviewer-who-only-wrote-it-was-horrible/ 29 comments technology
- Google’s ad tracking is as creepy as Facebook's. Here’s how to disable it. Google in June deleted a clause in its privacy settings that said it would not combine cookie information with personal information without consent. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-disable-google-ad-tracking-gmail-youtube-browser-history 100 comments technology
- Microsoft and Google’s new pact could signal the beginning of the end for personal privacy http://qz.com/676184/microsoft-and-googles-pact-is-the-end-of-personal-privacy/ 5 comments privacy
- Microsoft and Google’s new pact could signal the beginning of the end for personal privacy http://qz.com/676184/microsoft-and-googles-pact-is-the-end-of-personal-privacy/ 27 comments technology
- "Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information" http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html 8 comments technology
- Opt-out of personalized Google ads (no persistent tracking while still supporting creators and websites) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/non-personalized-google-ads/ 7 comments firefox
- Brazil has proposed new laws that would force e-businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers to store personal data about said customers on local servers. Google and Facebook have raised objections to the plan. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78772.html 5 comments worldnews
- Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans: "Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed" [United States of America] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790 41 comments economy
- Google Shuts Out Payday Loans With App Store Ban | Google said it made the change ‘to protect people from deceptive and exploitative personal loan terms’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-shuts-out-payday-loans-with-app-store-ban-11570886730 3 comments technology
- Indian Bitcoin Exchange joins IBM and Google at 1,000 person plus Hackathon • IHB News™ https://ihb.io/2015-07-23/news/indian-bitcoin-exchange-joins-ibm-google-1000-person-plus-hackathon-21074#pj5d 4 comments india
- Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly being co-opted by law enforcement and the Federal government to spy on you new report shows. Google charge 25$ per person, while Facebook is free of charge for law enforcement to track you on their website. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-internet-security-idustre78t2gy20110930 67 comments technology
- ‘Lazy,’ ‘Money-Oriented,’ ‘Single Mother’: How Union-Busting Firms Compile Dossiers on Employees. Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a top union avoidance firm hired by Google, show how it collects data on workers' personality, motivations, and work ethic to bust unions. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdqaz/lazy-money-oriented-single-mother-how-union-busting-firms-compile-dossiers-on-employees 190 comments technology
- Google refuses French order to apply 'right to be forgotten' globally - the French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/30/us-google-france-iduskcn0q424o20150730 69 comments technology
- Google's harvesting of emails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in Australia and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-aware-of-data-scoop-20120429-1xsxx.html 126 comments technology