Europeans have the right to request the removal of links in search engine results, thanks to a May 2014 court ruling, but should Americans also have the “right to be forgotten”? Consumer Watchdog says “Yes, definitely”.
Tag Archives: Google
Google ad profiling: what’s causing the gender discrimination?
Google displayed ads for a career coaching service for “$200k+” jobs 1852 times to the male profiles and only 318 times to female profiles. But is it Google’s fault?
Notes from SophosLabs: Poisoning Google search results and getting away with it
SophosLabs researchers recently uncovered a hack being used by unscrupulous web marketers to trick Google’s page ranking system. Search engines can have their moments of gullibility, too!
Smartphone anti-theft “kill switch” law goes into effect in California
It requires all mobile phones sold in the state to be enabled with the anti-theft technology by default. 
FTC acts against dodgy mobile app that mined Dogecoin behind your back
The app was called “Prized,” but it was the app vendor that took the prizes by co-opting your phone into a cryptocurrency mining botnet.
BBC sets up list of news article links ‘forgotten’ by Google
Search engines are now complying with right to be forgotten requests, but the new list makes the de-indexed articles easy to find through the BBC itself.
SSCC 204 – You want an extension to your extension for Windows XP? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, the award-winning Chet Chat. Enjoy!
Now you can avoid email sender’s remorse with Gmail’s ‘Undo Send’ feature
Wrong recipients and forgotten attachments could soon become a thing of the past with Gmail’s new ‘Undo Send’ feature.
NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win…
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google’s Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on… …that listened to your microphone.
Google, John Oliver & (hopefully soon) US give revenge porn 3 swift kicks
Google’s putting up search result takedown, the US is moving toward criminalisation, and John Oliver calls culprits “malevolent gods”.