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Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility stories, feeding off users location history

Google is giving the sphere a clearer glimpse of exactly how so much it is conscious about about folks far and wide — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its continual tracking of where shoppers go and what they do as a public excellent throughout a deadly disease. In a blog publish lately the tech…
Google is giving the world a clearer glimpse of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking of where users go and what they do as a public good in the midst of a pandemic. In a blog post today the tech…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned". (December 11, 2020)
  2. "Google has agreed to pay a 1.1 million fine over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The tech giant had been applying its own (algorithmic) system of ratings for hotels applied via its search engine and on Google Maps". (February 15, 2021)
  3. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
  4. "Human rights NGO, Amnesty International, has written to the EUs competition regulator calling for Googles acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked unless meaningful safeguards can be baked in". (November 27, 2020)
  5. "Europe has greenlit Googles $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal". (December 17, 2020)
  6. "A German court thats considering Facebooks appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the countrys competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europes top court". (March 24, 2021)
  7. "Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize seeking to mobilize its users against big media". (August 17, 2020)
  8. "The deadline for Europe to make a call on the Google -Fitbit merger has been pushed out again with EU regulators now having until January 8, 2021, to take a decision". (October 16, 2020)
  9. "European lawmakers are considering new rules for Internet giants that could include forcing them to share data with smaller rivals and/or put narrow limits on how they can use data in a bid to level the digital playing field". (September 30, 2020)
  10. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
  11. "A coalition of 135 startups and tech companies with services in verticals including travel, accommodation and jobs have written to the European Commission to urge antitrust action against Google warning that swift enforcement is needed or some of their businesses may not survive". (November 12, 2020)
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