google AI Drama: Google DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman abruptly placed on leave, no reason given for departure Xeni Jardin
google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Googlers circulate petition demanding a moratorium on contracts with US border agencies Cory Doctorow
google Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters Cory Doctorow
scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow
youtube Germany's powerful IG Metall trade union is organizing Youtubers to force Google to play fair Cory Doctorow
privacy Vast majority of porn sites use Google Analytics and Facebook embeds that track you, even in incognito mode Cory Doctorow
Business Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management Cory Doctorow
privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
youtube Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube Cory Doctorow
Business Insiders claim that Google's internet-fixing Jigsaw is a toxic vanity project for its founder, where women keep a secret post-crying touchup kit in the bathroom Cory Doctorow
crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
google U.S. Government security keys vulnerable to hackers, for the dumbest imaginable reason Seamus Bellamy
google The army of contractor-linguists who power Google Assistant say they had their wages stolen Cory Doctorow
