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New Mexico is suing Google, alleging the company violates federal child privacy law by collecting personal data of students younger than age 13 without their parents' consent. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, New Mexico alleges that Google collects from children their physical locations, browsing histories including YouTube videos, search terms, personal contact lists, voice recordings, saved passwords and behavioral data.
You know those ads that obscure your whole screen when you're trying to make a phone call, unlock your device or use your phone's GPS? Technically, they're called disruptive or out-of-app ads, and they maddeningly pop up outside of the app that hosts them, sometimes causing users to mistakenly click them, thereby frustrating users and wasting advertisers' money. On Thursday, Google kicked nearly 600 of the offending apps off its Play store and banned them from its ad monetization platforms, Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, for violating its disruptive ads policy and disallowed interstitial policy.
Bug disclosure service HackerOne was in the rare position of publicizing one of its own security holes this week after a researcher discovered a flaw that was exposing some user email addresses. Tenable says Microsoft won't fix Group Policy bug.
The lawsuit alleges that Google has used the service to collect data of children using the service, including their physical locations, websites they visit, terms used in Google's search engine and videos watched on YouTube. In all of these cases, the lawsuit alleges, Google has not properly disclosed to users that it's collecting this data.
New Mexico's attorney general sued Google Thursday over allegations the tech company is illegally collecting personal data generated by children in violation of federal and state laws. In a separate case, Google already has agreed to pay $170 million combined to the Federal Trade Commission and New York state to settle allegations its YouTube video service collected personal data on children without their parents' consent.
Google has removed roughly 600 applications from Google Play for violating its ad-related policies, the Internet search giant announced this week. The company banned them from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, its ad monetization platforms.
Researchers have identified eight malicious Android apps in the official Google Play marketplace distributing a new malware family. The comments under the Google Play download pages for these specific eight apps described the apps acting suspiciously, serving as red flags for potential downloaders.
Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.
Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.
On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials. Such purges have become a regular occurrence on platforms where third-party developers are afforded some freedom, like Google Play, the Chrome Web Store, and even the iOS App Store.