Google buys AR smart-glasses company North
July 3 2020They're not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of "ambient computing", where helpfulness is all around you.
Read moreNo US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process....
Read moreAndroid Apps Stealing Facebook Credentials
June 30 2020Google has removed 25 Android apps from its store because they steal Facebook credentials: Before being taken down, the 25 apps were collectively downloaded more than 2.34 million times....
Read moreMore ad fraud apps found hiding on Google Play Store
June 17 2020Fraudulent Android app developers have been discovered trying to manipulate Google’s Play Store security by removing suspicious code before adding it back in to see what trips detection systems.
Read moreGoogle's threat analysts have identified state-level attacks from China. I hope both campaigns are working under the assumption that everything they say and do will be dumped on the...
Read moreGoogle has deleted an app from the Play Store that offered to delete Android software associated with China.
Read moreThe UK's National Crime Agency has hit on a simple way to stop teens from being sucked into cybercrime – using Google Ads.
Read moreMaps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it's consumer fraud.
Read moreUK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime
May 28 2020The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire...
Read moreThe dogfood version of the recently updated app shows multiple references to encryption for RCS, the feature-rich successor to SMS messaging.
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