Privacy has become more than a key component of corporate cybersecurity policies and procedures — it also is a lightning rod for lawsuits by consumers who believe ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Just six months after walking back another of its privacy focused changes, Google is once more making changes to how it handles private user data in Google Chrome and its related applications. The ...

Following preliminary objections over Google’s data terms, set out back in January by Germany’s antitrust watchdog, the tech giant has agreed to make changes that will give users a better choice over ...

Update, March 8, 2025: This story, originally published March 7, has been updated with details of more data that Google has confirmed it will be deleting unless account holders take swift action to ...

When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, device, and which ads you click are tracked even when you're not ...

Ah, Google. We couldn't live without its search engine, Gmail, and especially YouTube. Its services are practically ubiquitous, and the world would reel from the loss if it were to vanish tomorrow.

Before Google’s disastrous social network Google+ came the less remembered Google Buzz. Launched in 2010, Buzz survived less than two years. But its mishandling of people’s personal data motivated the ...

Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, defended why so many search terms are hidden within the Google Ads advertiser console and reports. She said, "the threshold increase was solely privacy-driven." She ...