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Google has also been implicated in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, a case before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's national court) and the European Court of Justice, which required Google to comply with the European privacy laws (i.e., the Data Protection Directive) and to allow users to be forgotten when operating in the ...
Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API , on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.
"By explicitly allowing a tracking technique that they previously described as incompatible with user control, Google highlights its ongoing prioritisation of profits over privacy," said Lena ...
The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users. [ 1 ] Google+ managers first noticed harvesting of personal data in March 2018, [ 2 ] during a review following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal .
"Here, Google had a general privacy disclosure yet promoted Chrome by suggesting that certain information would not be sent to Google unless a user turned on sync," Smith wrote. "A reasonable user ...
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a ...
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Learn to use the privacy features in your web browser Internet browsers, such as Edge, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, have a variety of tools and plug-ins available to help protect your privacy and the security of the information you use on the Internet.