Google has agreed to delete billions of records and submit to some restrictions on its power to track users, under the terms of a proposed legal settlement. The deal aims to resolve a class action lawsuit brought in the US … Read More
March 12 (Reuters) – Google is restricting AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions about the global elections set to happen this year, the Alphabet-owned firm (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday, as it looks to avoid potential missteps in … Read More
After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation. The tech giant plans to release a series of short videos … Read More
Dec 28 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, … Read More
Unidentified foreign governments are surveilling mobile phone users through push notifications, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said. Wyden, a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence member, sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday inquiring about how foreign officials sought … Read More
Decades after IBM and Microsoft, Google becomes the rare tech giant to be prosecuted in wide and sweeping antitrust action Starting tomorrow (Sep. 12), Google, the world’s most-used search engine, has to prove that it is not using its pole … Read More
Google parent company Alphabet told employees to avoid entering confidential information into chatbots and warned them about the risks of AI tools including its very own chatbot Bard. Alphabet also advised engineers against directly utilizing code provided by chatbots. While bots can, … Read More
The demo includes an inaccuracy about the James Webb Space Telescope, underscoring the misinformation risks of using Bard and ChatGPT to refine search. As Google’s AI-powered Bard prepares to compete against ChatGPT, don’t count on the chatbot programs always being … Read More
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google’s online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States but is actually Russian, Reuters has found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Read More
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued Google, alleging it violated privacy laws by illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans’ without their informed consent for almost a decade. The suit, filed in Midland County … Read More