Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to Google

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 1:10:00
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Dan

The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace services in the country's schools.

The matter was brought to the agency's attention roughly four years ago by a concerned...

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 6:27:00
1 minute, 3 seconds
Dan

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.

In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Googl...

Tiny tool makes noises whenever your computer sends a packet to a Google service - googerteller

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:42:00
0 minutes, 14 seconds
Dan

Thanks to @bert_hu_bert for his tiny tool - googerteller.

"Makes a little bit of noise any time your computer sends a packet to a #Google service, which excludes Google Cloud users."

Demo video https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544

We have added a quick installation gu...

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New Zealanders and other people in this time zone, and of course those who are ahead of our time zone (greetings to Tonga), have reached the halfway mark of 2022. Saturday...