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Google reCAPTCHA V3: Compromising Your Privacy

Last year, Google introduced reCAPTCHA V3, the latest version of its verification technology that confirmed whether a website is being accessed by a bot or a human. However, the new version puts a person’s privacy at risk. Surrendering privacy reCAPTCHA v3 is very different from its previous versions. Earlier, people had to complete a simple ...

Armin Auctor

Securing data.

Repeated Privacy Breaches From the World’s Most Trusted Search Engine

After almost a decade in court, Google has decided to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of privacy breaches for collecting people’s personal data without their consent through its Street View program (between 2007 and 2010). The settlement will require the company to pay out US$13 million as compensation and also mandates that all ...

Armin Auctor

A Google Street View car.

Tech Intrusion: Digital Advertising and How It Affects Our Daily Reality

The age of digital advertising has come and will flourish even more, but at the expense of people’s privacy and democracy in the digital world. The threat of digital advertising Digital advertising has come a long way: Just decades ago, it was no more than a banner that people saw on their oft-visited websites. But ...

Armin Auctor

Digital advertising.

The Case for Why Tech Monopoly Needs to Be Broken

A free market can only exist if it harbors a sufficient number of competitors. When a single company gains an absolute majority over the market, the idea of the free market suddenly becomes oppressive. What was a healthy business environment turns into a dangerous monopoly where the majority company usurps power to dictate the market. ...

Jack Roberts

Amazon online retailer.

When a Powerful Few Control the Many: Monopolies in the American Economy

Monopolies are economic situations in which a seller, or group of sellers, acts jointly to control markets. In the U.S., three corporations control nearly 80 percent of the mobile telecommunication market, four control almost 85 percent of U.S. corn seed sales, three firms exercise control over 95 percent of credit cards issued, and just 6 ...

Jack Roberts

Monopoly.

Google Making Billions From Free News

At a time when most news media are finding it hard to make enough revenue to remain in business, Google seems to be minting money with its news service. According to a study conducted by the News Media Alliance (NMA), Google earned close to US$4.7 billion in 2018 from its news service without paying anything ...

Jack Roberts

Google News.

Google Stadia: The Future of Gaming

Google Stadia offers a glimpse into what the future of gaming will look like. The soon-to-be-launched service offers players the ability to stream a game at the highest possible quality through any device, be it a computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. One can play for a few hours at home on a PC and then ...

Armin Auctor

Google Stadia logo.

Google’s Continued Support of China’s Great Firewall

Google has banned virtual private network (VPN) product adverts in China because of local legal restrictions. The action, however, seems to lend credence to the rumors that Google plans on re-entering the Chinese market with a censored search engine to work around China’s Great Firewall. Following policy or helping censorship efforts? Under its new policy, ...

Jack Roberts

The Google logo.

Google Fears Conservative Ideas Seeping Into AI Ethics

Google was forced to shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board just a few days after its formation. Some of its employees and activist groups had complained that one of the panel’s members was too conservative. The controversy The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) formed by Google was initially comprised of eight experts ...

Armin Auctor

The Google matrix.

Google Employees Fear Project Dragonfly Still Alive and Kicking

Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the company had no immediate plans to go ahead with implementing project Dragonfly, a censored search engine, in China. Since he never confirmed that the project was fully shut down, there was always speculation that it was active. And now, a few employees at Google have uncovered ...

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