Students would be wise to learn the strategies fact-checkers use to evaluate online information, write Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew.

It's not easy keeping billions of devices safe from phishing attacks. Here's how Google pulls it off.

The Guardian , and others, have discovered that when querying Google for "did the Holocaust really happen", the top response is a Holocaust ...

Right now tech employees at Google are 81% male, 3% Hispanic, and 1% Black.

Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.

Now that schools are back in full swing, we thought it would be a good time to check in on what’s happened in the student privacy world since we submitted our FTC complaint about Google’s practices a

The fate of Cooper’s long-running Web site is a chilling reminder that creative work lives online at the mercy of the platforms that host it.

Unless you meticulously avoid Google's services, it's likely that you end up using a lot of them every day. All this customer data powers Google's...

Google responded that its search algorithm mirrors the availability and frequency of online content. “This means that sometimes unpleasant portrayals of sensitive subject matter online can affect what image search results appear for a given query.”

Collecting web usage data through services like Google Analytics is a top priority for any library. But what about user privacy? Most libraries (and websites for that matter) lean on Google Analyti…

There’s a fine line between a marketing campaign and a cover-up. The attempt by UC Davis to get its pepper spray incident off the top of Google searches is a case in point.

Technology leaders, academics and governments are talking about where AI goes next.

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning   Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble discusses her research into Google, a
technology commonly thought of as a public resource free from commercial
interest, and the ways in which it mediates public access to
information in biased ways and permits problematic racial and gender
misrepresentations.  Sponsored by the Douglas College Faculty Professional Development Committee.
 
Speaker bio
Safiya Umoja Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
and Information Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on socio-cultural
informatics, and feminist, historical and political-economic
perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest.
Her research is at the intersection of transnational culture and
technology in the design and use of applications on the internet. She is
currently writing a book about Google and Information bias (forthcoming
from NYU Press).

Spurred on by Apple’s battles against the FBI, some of tech’s biggest names are to expand encryption of user data in their services, the Guardian can reveal

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In a letter to Sen. Al Franken, Google says it doesn't target ads to students, but does track some K-12 student data.

Plaintiffs' attorney: "Google has refused to delete previously-collected data."