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Google has been hit by a lawsuit alleging that it violates user privacy by collecting location data via various means - and claiming that Google makes it nearly "Impossible" for users to opt out of such data tracking. The lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleges that Google uses "Deceptive and unfair conduct" to obtain Android users' location data via various applications, services and technologies, which is then used for advertising purposes.
The US state of Arizona filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Google of committing fraud by being deceptive about gathering location data. Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich said the suit resulted from an investigation launched two years ago after a media report that Google had ways of knowing where users were even if they opted not to share location information with the internet firm.
In form-based phishing attacks, scammers leverage sites such as Google Docs and Microsoft Sway to trap victims into revealing their login credentials. The initial phishing email typically contains a link to one of these legitimate sites, which is why these attacks can be difficult to detect and prevent.
Google reported on Wednesday that it continues to see attacks launched by the Iran-linked threat group named Charming Kitten against medical and healthcare professionals, including employees of the World Health Organization. The attacks launched by Iranian hackers against WHO staff were first reported by Reuters in early April.
Make room, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram and all you other end-to-end encrypted messaging services - Google's getting closer to elbowing its way onto the stage with its Google Messages. The RCS protocol - popularly known as Chat - is the successor to SMS messaging and does what most other texting services do, but without the end-to-end encryption of apps like Signal, et al.
Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key.
Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key. CBS News and CNET Senior Producer Dan Patterson talked with Philip Moyer, VP of Industries for Google Cloud, about G Suite and Google Meet has helped people and students work from home, safely, amid the coronavirus quarantine.
Those apps must be contact tracing apps from from public health authorities. Each day, phones running an app that uses the API will download a list of beacons from phones whose users have tested positive for the virus.
A series of phishing campaigns using Google Firebase storage URLs have surfaced, showing that cybercriminals continue to leverage the reputation of Google's cloud infrastructure to dupe victims and skate by secure email gateways. Using the Firebase storage API, companies can store data in a Google cloud storage bucket.
InfiniteIO, which offers the world's fastest metadata platform to accelerate application performance and reduce cloud latency, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to significantly reduce the cost of network-attached storage and speed cloud adoption for organizations facing exponential data growth and infrastructure costs. Customers and channel partners can now rapidly identify and move massive amounts of infrequently accessed yet invaluable files to Google Cloud Platform to lower total storage costs while keeping all of their files accessible and active to end-users.