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Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads
2025-04-23 22:18

Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information...

Blue Shield of California leaked health data of 4.7 million members to Google
2025-04-23 15:38

Blue Shield of California disclosed it suffered a data breach after exposing protected health information of 4.7 million members to Google's analytics and advertisement platforms. [...]

Google Drops Cookie Prompt in Chrome, Adds IP Protection to Incognito
2025-04-23 05:19

Google on Tuesday revealed that it will no longer offer a standalone prompt for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative. "We've made the decision to...

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
2025-04-22 20:20

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals After six years of work, Google's Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in...

Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials
2025-04-22 10:50

In what has been described as an "extremely sophisticated phishing attack," threat actors have leveraged an uncommon approach that allowed bogus emails to be sent via Google's infrastructure and...

Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack
2025-04-20 17:31

In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google's systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent...

Google Gemini AI is getting ChatGPT-like Scheduled Actions feature
2025-04-19 12:01

Google Gemini is testing a ChatGPT-like scheduled tasks feature called "Scheduled Actions," which will allow you to create tasks that Gemini will execute later. [...]

Google blocked over 5 billion ads in 2024 amid rise in AI-powered scams
2025-04-16 19:16

Google blocked 5.1 billion ads and suspended more than 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its 2024 Ads Safety Report released this week. [...]

Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com
2025-04-16 14:47

Google has announced that it's retiring separate country code top-level domain names like google.co.uk or google.com.br and redirecting users to Google.com. [...]

Google Blocked 5.1B Harmful Ads and Suspended 39.2M Advertiser Accounts in 2024
2025-04-16 12:48

Google on Wednesday revealed that it suspended over 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, with a majority of them identified and blocked by its systems before it could serve harmful ads to...