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Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTP in Chrome

Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.

It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google.

Ever notice a missing company name next to the URL address bar? Ever change behavior because of it? Likely not, so bye-bye, useless badge.

A senior executive at private browser company Brave has accused Google of using a workaround that lets it identify users to ad networks.

YouTube can’t track kids online anymore without their parents’ permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m.

When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.

What should be a private key used to vouch for the ‘Free Basics by Facebook’ app was used to sign unrelated apps.

It’s a gnat bite, critics say: The FTC’s reported fine would be worth about two to three months of YouTube ad revenue.

A sophisticated and sustained watering hole attack affecting iPhones may have targeted Windows and Android too.

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.