youtube YouTube pushes children's videos to pedophiles through content recommendation engine Xeni Jardin
web theory Google's API changes mean only paid enterprise users of Chrome will be able to access full adblock Cory Doctorow
Copyfight How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control Cory Doctorow
Business Big Tech: "If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!" Cory Doctorow
Business To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking Cory Doctorow
security In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction Cory Doctorow
Business A deep dive into the internal politics, personalities and social significance of the Googler Uprising Cory Doctorow
google After retaliation against Googler Uprising organizers, a company-wide memo warns employees they can be fired for accessing "need to know" data Cory Doctorow
facebook Google mistakenly started handing out a reporter's cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support Cory Doctorow
News YouTube star Austin Jones faces prison after child porn guilty plea, coerced teen girls to perform sexual acts live online Xeni Jardin
politics Google tells U.S. House it spends 'hundreds of millions' on content review each year, found +1M 'terrorist videos' on YouTube in Q1 2019 Xeni Jardin
Business Googlers around the world down tools for "Knit and Sit" protest over retaliation against organizers of last year's googler uprisings Cory Doctorow
google Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow
google Google walkout organizers say they're being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards Cory Doctorow
privacy Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
Business Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow
Business Googler uprising leads to shut down of AI ethics committee that included the president of the Heritage Foundation Cory Doctorow
Copyfight After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow
