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The privacy options are hidden by Google deep in the settings to make it difficult for users to find.

According to Business Insider, an unverified document in the lawsuit between the state of Arizona (USA) against Google shows that this company has been making it difficult for users to protect their privacy.

Specifically, the documents claim that Google continues to collect location data even when users have turned off location sharing, and makes it difficult for users to find privacy settings. Insider also reported that the documents show that Google pressured phone manufacturers to hide the privacy setting, as it is quite common among users. According to AP, even if a user has turned off Location History and doesn't allow apps to track location data, Google will still know the user's location. This location data will not be recorded in the history of the Google Maps application but is only used by Google. Users can disable Google's location tracking by turning off another option, called Web & App Activity.

Earlier in May last year, Attorney General Mark Brnovich of the state of Arizona (USA) filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally tracking location without consent. comments from Android users. The documents indicate that Google still allows background tasks to be launched for location tracking, and only stops these processes altogether when the user disables system-level tracking. ). Google spokesman José Castañeda responded to The Verge's email, saying Google's services are being misrepresented in nature: "Brnovich and Google's competitors are trying to advance the lawsuit. and misrepresenting our services.At Google, we always work collaboratively to integrate privacy into our products and provide robust controls for location data. wish to be able to correct these misunderstandings."

Currently, Google has not confirmed any additional information.

Russian authorities say Google has 24 hours to remove banned content if it does not want to be fined. Even Russia will slow down Google's speed in this country.

Russia has taken measures to slow down Twitter for not removing banned content. This is part of Moscow's efforts to rein in major Western tech firms and protect its Internet sovereignty.

Media watchdog Roskomnadzor said it had sent more than 26,000 calls to Google to remove illegal information, including videos containing information about drugs, violence or extremist organizations. Google will be fined from 800,000 to 4 million rubles (VND 249 million to VND 1.24 billion) if it does not restrict access to prohibited information. Repeat violations will be fined up to 10% of total annual revenue. In addition, Roskomnadzor also accused Google of censoring domestic news agencies such as RT, Sputnik. Authorities asserted that censorship of Russian media and support for illegal protests "really speaks to the political color of Google's activities in Russia".

Last week, Google's Russia branch filed an appeal against a Moscow court order ordering it to unlock the account of a news channel belonging to a Russian businessman who is under financial sanctions from the United States and Europe. Court documents also show that Google sued Roskomnadzor for asking to remove banned content.

Google filed a lawsuit on April 23, but it was only accepted on May 11 after solving some problems. The hearing is scheduled to take place on July 14.

The Russian Mass Media Supervision Bureau previously required to block 12 "illegal content" links on Google's video sharing website YouTube, and warned that if the platform does not take action, it may be subject to sanctions.

Google has filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federal Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Media Supervision Bureau in a Moscow court, and the Moscow court has accepted it. According to RIA Novosti’s report on May 25, citing news from the Moscow City Court, the Moscow court imposed a fine of 6 million rubles (approximately RMB 523,800) on Google’s failure to delete information and content prohibited by Russian officials from disseminating it .

According to news on May 24, local time in the United States on Sunday, Google and its parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai) said in an exclusive interview that combating false information is "the core of everything we do." And said that search is still the "ultimate moon landing project."

Pichai said that as the world's largest search engine, Google is mainly focused on ranking results for "true, accurate and safe". He said: "Responsibility for content is always an important aspect of our focus. We are making great progress using human reviewers and AI. This is an ongoing work, and there is more information in the world than ever before, so We are working hard to expand." Pichai also said that he thinks Google's "ultimate moon landing project" is still search. He explained: "For me, our final moon landing project is still search. I know people may be surprised by this. After all, our search engine performs very well. But it is precisely because I am in the search business. Therefore, we are more aware of its various limitations. Even today, when people make complex queries, it is not easy for us to truly understand the user’s intentions, background, and give the best answer. So this is still Google’s moon landing project."

The so-called "moon landing projects" refer to those that have long-term strategic significance, but are sometimes regarded as "crazy ideas or improbable internal company projects", such as self-driving cars and Google glasses.

Last year, Google introduced a new feature called “back-forward cache” on Google Chrome Android version, this is a feature that allows instant page loading when users switch between web pages with the back button. return or forward. According to a new document discovered by the news site Windowslatest, the upcoming Google Chrome 92 update will also allow support for this unique feature on all 3 platforms Windows, Linux and macOS.

In Google Chrome, if you open and close a page, the page is immediately removed from memory to save resources. For almost two years, Google has been experimenting with a back-forward cache feature so that opened pages will no longer be deleted as before, so if the user goes back to the page with the back or forward button, the page will no longer be deleted. will appear always instead of having to reload as before. This feature tries to make Chrome's Back and Forward buttons work almost instantly.

"Back-forward cache is a browser feature that improves the user experience by keeping a page alive after the user exits the page and helping the user to reuse the page immediately by Back/Forward buttons. We have made this feature available for Android. We want to start testing the back-forward cache on the Desktop platform. " Google notes in a new document. Accordingly, pages will be cached by Chrome, allowing the browser to instantly restore the entire page when the user navigates back, as shown in the GIF above. The feature will also work when navigating to a previously visited page. This feature will be enabled on Chrome version 92 for Desktop platforms in the coming months. Google is currently planning to begin testing Chrome 92 and expand its reach in the coming months. It's not yet clear when this feature will be enabled for all users or just to a small extent, but interested users can manually enable back-forward cache from the flags menu on Chrome. In addition to improving page loading speed, Google is also said to be working on the Sharing Hub, which will allow users to copy a page's URL, generate a QR code, and cast the tab to another connected device.

One of the features that may appear on Android 12 is the new theme system that will automatically take colors from the background image of the screen as the main color for the theme (Native Theming Support). Basically, the operating system will automatically take colors from your wallpaper and then automatically theme the rest of the system with additional colors. However, this feature is currently not available on the beta version of Android 12 and there is no information on when Google will add this feature to Android 12.

Proving that the Native Theming Support feature is real, a developer of X.DA -Developers recently discovered a completely new colorful interface of "Visual Assistant - Google Assistant" with extreme colors different period. As you can see in the image below, the interface of Google Assistant is covered in some fresh colors, no longer the familiar white. However, it is possible that this feature has just been tested by Google on Android 12, so the colors do not match the text displayed on the Google Assistant interface. Obviously, the green color of the Google Assistant interface in the photo below does not match the background screen, completely different from the mechanism of getting colors from the background image of Native Theming Support. But it is entirely possible that a theme is not working correctly or there is some other error. Unfortunately, the developers at X.DA were unable to reproduce the colors themselves. However, this evidence is in line with the Native Theming Support leaks that we already know about Android 12.

Although on the iPhone has a built-in virtual assistant called Siri, not everyone is familiar with this virtual assistant. A perfect alternative to Siri is called Google Assistant. And the cool thing here is that you can launch Google Assistant through Siri quickly and conveniently. Let's learn how to do this through the steps below!

Step 1: First, you need to install the Google Assistant virtual assistant on your iPhone using the following link . Step 2: Once the installation is complete, exit back to the home screen of the iPhone. Next, access the Google Assistant app. At the first use, you need to log into your Google account to continue> allow Google Assistant to send notifications to your phone. In case you have already signed in with your Google account on your iPhone, you just need to select the account to continue.

Step 3: At the main interface of Google Assistant, click the Visual Snapshot button in the bottom left corner. Here you look for Add "OK Google" to Siri (Add "OK Google" to Siri)> click Add to Siri (Add to Siri). Step 4: Next, you will be navigated to the shortcut command> re-confirm the shortcut by pressing Add to Siri (Add to Siri). You can check the shortcut commands again by going to the Shortcuts app. Step 5: Finally, just exit back to your iPhone's home screen and launch Siri. Then say the command "OK, Google". At this point, Siri will answer you with the sentence: "What should question be?" or "What do you want to ask Google". Next you just need to read the keyword you want to search and Siri will pass the information to the Google Assistant virtual assistant. The information transfer will take a few seconds. Your search results will be displayed on the main interface of Google Assistant! It's simple, right! Above are instructions on how to launch Google Assistant using Siri . Wish you success and don't forget to share this article with your friends and relatives!

" Google promises its hundreds of millions of users that it will never sell any personal information to third parties, and that users will be determined how their information is used. That appointment is false "- the lawsuit stated, with a quote from Google's CEO Sundar Pichai in the New York Times in 2019." In fact, Google monitors every move in the digital world consumers, then make billions of dollars by selling their sensitive personal information. " The lawsuit continued to quote Google's terms of service as "We do not sell your personal information to anyone ".

According to a lawsuit filed in San Jose District Court by three Google users on Thursday, the act of intentionally selling data was " continuous and sneaky " through a " real-time bidding " system. to register the search giant's digital advertising position. If approved by the court, this action will be classified as class action.

If advertisers use the data to place their targeted ads right in front of the people who are most likely to notice it, other companies will also "drain" and store users' bidstream data. Google - the lawsuit affirms. " Many participants do not bid and only participate to conduct tracking and collecting more detailed data points about millions of Google consumers "

In a brief email released Thursday, Google countered that privacy and transparency are at the core of its advertising services. " We never sell people's personal information and have strict policies in place to prohibit personalized ads based on sensitive categories, " spokesman Jose Castaneda said.

The lawsuit alleging a Google abuse of user data violated California law and federal law.

The plaintiffs also provided two more letters of Google's data-related behavior, which were sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last year and to Google CEO, Sunda Pichai, last month. , signed by the majority of Democrats - including MPs Zoe Lofgren, Anna Eshoo and Ro Khanna - and Republican MP Bill Cassidy.

" Very few Americans realize that companies are draining and storing that bidstream data to create a complete profile of them, " both letters said. " These records include browsing data, location data, and other data about them, which will then be sold to venture funds, political campaigns, and even to government. no court order " While Google says user information is "anonymous" and is only shared with a small number of partners, it allows ad auction participants to match data already from other sources with an identifier. provided by Google to identify individual users - including users who have taken measures to prevent tracking - the lawsuit asserted.

The lawsuit also pointed to Google's "history of privacy violations", which once put them on the radar of the government. In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission declared the company " employ shady tactics and violate its own promises of privacy to consumers " by launching a social network that is now has been discontinued. Google then settled with the FTC. But two years later, after being accused by the FTC of violating an agreement with Apple's Safari browser users by not setting tracking cookies or displaying ads targeting them, Google accepted. receive compensation of up to 22.5 million USD.

In 2019, Google agreed to pay $ 170 million to settle the allegations of the FTC and the New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents' consent. Last year, a French high court sanctioned Google € 50 million for using user data in targeted advertising without asking for permission.

The plaintiffs - California residents Meaghan Delahunty and John Kevranian, and Texas resident Meghan Cornelius - claim a large portion of Google's 2020 advertising revenue ($ 147 billion) comes from collecting and selling information. user. They accuse Google of violating illegal privacy, contract, and enrichment laws, and claiming damages for themselves and the millions of other Americans they want to call into lawsuits.

In a recent post about the Google Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G, Google accidentally uploaded a photo taken by the Pixel 5a. The EXIF data of the photo revealed somewhat about the "genuine" camera part of the device.

Accordingly, one of the photos has EXIF data showing it was taken by Pixel 5a, on October 1, 2020 in Taiwan. Specifically, the Pixel 5a's f / 2.2 ultra-wide-angle camera captured the scene of the neighborhood near where the device was developed.

It is not clear whether the above was caused by mistake or intentional, but currently the photo has been removed from the Google post.



The move above makes us more certain that the Pixel 5a 5G will be released soon. Not long ago, Google had to dismiss rumors that the Pixel 5a 5G didn't exist or that the development of this model was completely stopped.

The Pixel 5a is said to use the Snapdragon 765G chip, which offers 5G support and a host of other great features including a significantly improved camera department. In addition, the device is expected to feature a 6.2-inch Full HD + screen and a refresh rate similar to the Pixel 4a 5G version.