Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, alleging that the company misled smartphone users on how personal location data was being collected, kept and used. According to the regulator, the local Google unit for almost two years did not tell users of its Android operating system that they needed to switch off two settings –... 

Share prices of Google parent company Alphabet have plunged after the tech giant reported slowing revenue growth, with brands pulling ads from YouTube amid concerns over the site’s ‘harmful content’. Google founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt had about $9 billion wiped from their collective net worths as the stock plunged in early trading on Tuesday. Alphabet shares... 

Internal discussions from Google indicate that the search giant is “manually” curating blacklists of search terms – including Rep. Maxine Waters, anti-gun activist David Hogg, and abortion – on YouTube and other services. The EUTimes is also heavily censored on Google. The conservative news site Breitbart says it obtained an internal discussion thread from a Google employee showing the existence... 

Facebook has admitted that sometimes, it might actually be bad for democracy. Facebook is right about that. However, I’m not sure that the social media platform really understands why this is the case. The admission comes in a series of official blog posts by Facebook insiders about what effect social media can have on democracy. “I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh... 

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has been named the largest lobbyist in Washington, DC, in 2017, the first time ever that a tech company has claimed that mantle. Alphabet spent $18 million to influence US government policy in the past year. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou of Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear spoke to Chris Garaffa, an independent tech journalist and web developer with... 

This is a direct attack on Russia as a country, this is a major movement and even an act of war and for this, I see no reason why Russia shouldn’t completely BAN Google and all its subsidiaries such as YouTube in its entire territory from ever showing up to Russian visitors. Google makes billions from Russia annually with their liberal leftist advertisements, they would regret banning 2 major... 

China is likely to beat the US in artificial intelligence under its national plan to exceed all other countries in the field by 2030, despite the Americans being its creators in the name of their own “exceptionalism,” the Alphabet Inc. chairman has warned. “Trust me, these Chinese people are good,” the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., Eric Schmidt said at the...