Google argued that because user data sought by prosecutors is stored on an overseas server, the U.S. government lacks authority to seize the records under the Stored Communications Act.
Google is ramping up its media presence with the announcement that the Google News Lab will be working with Report For America (RFA) to hire 1,000 journalists all around the country.
The site purports to offer an alternative to what some critics decry as rampant viewpoint-based censorship at Twitter and Google.
Banned by the mainstream app stores, a social network that caters to Trump supporters and global dissidents alike brought a federal complaint Thursday against Google. With no restrictions in place to limit hate speech or pornographic content, the
At the heart of the case is Google’s practice of intercepting emails sent to Gmail customers, and scanning the content of those emails for two purposes — weeding out spam content and for targeted advertising.
A federal judge indicated on Thursday that she will approve a preliminary settlement between Google and users whose email content was scanned for advertising purposes. “I intend to grant preliminary approval for the settlement in this case,” U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh during a hearing Thursday afternoon. At the heart of the
“Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings.”
In what critics are calling a "deeply troubling" indication of the power massive corporations have over ostensibly independent policy shops, New America—an influential Washington-based think tank—
There are lots of good strategies for beating both corporate and government Internet censors and snoops. These range from alternatives to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — to direct subscriptions to authors and pubs — to setting up your own VPN. All are worth the effort.
While Google’s Information Age dominance has long been recognized to have some unsavory consequences, the massive technology corporation has, in recent months, taken to directly censoring content and traffic to a variety of independent media outlets across the political spectrum -- essentially muting the voices of any site or
A number of sites, including Middle East Eye, found videos removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines after AI flagging.
YouTube has apologized after "mistakenly" removing videos portraying war crimes and other facets of the Syrian civil war by activists and opposition groups. Last week, a number of organizations - including Middle East Eye, open source investigations site Bellingcat, and monitoring group Airwars - said that a number of their
