Google’s controversial “zero-day dropping machine,” Project Zero, which automatically outs your bugs after 90 days, will now give up to 14 day’s leeway.
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Are Miami cops really flooding Waze with fake police sightings?
An NBC affiliate seems to think so, but others are dubious. Miami’s finest would have to be lacking in tech smarts to think they could game the Google app.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft pay to get ads past Adblock Plus
Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising.
Google extends its all-seeing eye, invites third party apps to Google Now
Digital assistant data orgy to glom onto info from Lyft or eBay, et al., whose creepily helpful cards will auto-pop up, sans search.
Google redesigns security warnings after 70% of Chrome users ignore them
You can strip jargon, but in the end, the warnings that work best are those with visual throb: pick the right colors and hide the wrong choices!
Google to change privacy policy after settling case with ICO
Google and the ICO have settled a case over the company’s privacy policy being too vague, with the upshot being that policy changes are now in the works. 
Google asked to muzzle Waze ‘police-stalking’ app
US police are typically the ones to surveil, not the other way around, as Google’s crowd-sourced, police-mapping traffic app is doing. Now sheriffs are asking Google to pull the plug on it. 
How the Obamacare website healthcare.gov leaks private data
HealthCare.gov, the US insurance exchange website that is a central component of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), is sending personal information on users to third parties including Facebook, Google, and web analytics companies.
SSCC 182 – What would the Pirate Party do? [PODCAST]
This week’s episode of our quarter-hour security podcast. Entertaining as well as accurate and educational – why not give it a listen?
Google Glass – going, going, gone…
Google’s website is still promising to “bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible.” Until next week, anyway, when it’s all over…