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The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.
Even well-intentioned, would-be allies will find bad information.
Google's data-tracking practices are the subject of a study that found even private web browsing leaves a trace and consumers are being watched everywhere.
This research exposes how much data Google is collecting about consumers and their most personal habits across all of its products.
Google dorking, also known as Google hacking, can return information that is difficult to locate through simple search queries. That description includes information that is not intended for public...
Siding against Google, Mississippi's highest court has refused to halt a privacy lawsuit brought against the company by Attorney General Jim Hood.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them.
How the anti-vaccine movement used an information void to inject itself into the top results.
Google collects far more information about us than Facebook. But the Google data that our tech columnist downloaded on himself contained fewer surprises and was more easily deleted.
Google promised a fix after its photo-categorization software labeled black people as gorillas in 2015. More than two years later, it hasn't found one.
Diversity advocate says he was told to "avoid posting on controversial topics."
A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company’s human resources department and a senior vice president pressured him to stop discussing diversity initiatives on company forums, interactions that ultimately motivated him to leave the company.
On search engines and social media, their distortions of society, and what we can do about them.
Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like "black people ruin neighborhoods," then allowed the campaign to go live.