Privacy watchers and politicians say so, and they're calling the two tech titans to the mat to explain themselves. It should come as no surprise that location-based ...

Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.… Readers might note that other prominent vendors in ...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ...

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law ...

Find out how the upcoming changes to Google Maps' location data controls could affect analytics data for businesses and advertisers. On-device Timeline storage is coming to Google Maps for enhanced ...

If you later choose a cloud backup for your location history, it will be encrypted end-to-end so no one, not even Google, can access it without your involvement. Rob writes from Washington, DC, about ...

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Google has settled for $93 million with California, resolving allegations that the company used location data without informed consent, violating the state’s consumer protection laws. The settlement ...