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In brief Google has settled another location tracking lawsuit, yet again being fined a relative pittance. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office announced the $39.9 million fine last week, along with news that Google will have to implement several state-ordered tracking reforms that clarify what data is being gathered and for what purposes.
Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos-at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants.
Google has updated its policy for personal accounts across its services to allow a maximum period of inactivity of two years. Google says the policy change aims to enhance online security, as inactive accounts often fall prey to account hijacking, typically due to old and weak passwords and no additional security measures.
Google has announced plans to officially flip the switch on its twice-delayed Privacy Sandbox initiatives as it slowly works its way to deprecate support for third-party cookies in Chrome browser. To that end, the search and advertising giant said it intends to phase out third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users globally in the first quarter of 2024.
These apps have popped up in the Google Play and Apple App Store. "Scammers have and always will use the latest trends or technology to line their pockets. ChatGPT is no exception. With interest in AI and chatbots arguably at an all-time high, users are turning to the Apple App and Google Play Stores to download anything that resembles ChatGPT," said Sean Gallagher, principal threat researcher, Sophos.
Comment In early May, Google Domains added support for eight new top-level domains, two of which -. Zip domain could be registered and used to host, say, a Flask application that responds to any request with a malicious.
A week after Twitter announced it will be removing idle accounts after 30 days of inaction, Google has updated its account inactivity policy. Google says that the updated policy is effective immediately, but that it will start deleting accounts that haven't been active for at least 2 years only later this year.
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Google will add artificial intelligence to several online safety features and give users more insight into whether their information might have been posted on the dark web, the tech giant announced during the Google I/O conference on May 10. Google offers AI image generation and plans to roll out markups that will label those images as AI-generated in Search.
Google has announced new tools, features and updates to improve users' online safety, help them evaluate content found online, and alert them if their Gmail identity appears on the dark web.Another helpful "Tool" for users is the newly introduced option of using passkeys - digital keys linked to a user account and a website or app - to authenticate to one's Google account.