The latest tracking nightmare for Chrome users comes in two parts. First, Google has ignored security warnings and launched a new Chrome API to detect and report when you’re “idle,” i.e., not actively using your device. Apple warns “this is an obvious privacy concern,” and Mozilla that it’s “too tempting an opportunity for surveillance.”
Google, though, isn’t listening, reinforcing its fairly narrow use case while staying silent on these warnings. “This feature,” Google told me, “which we only expect to be used by a small fraction of sites, requires the site to ask for the user’s permission to access this data. It was built with privacy in mind, and helps messaging applications deliver notifications to only the device the user is currently using.”
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Google’s latest gambit isn’t yet generating headlines, but it will. Rather than take Apple’s approach, that your privacy should be sacrosanct, Google wants to “budget” how invasive data harvesting can be. Rather than simply stopping web trackers from collecting your data, Google plans to introduce a “privacy budget,” whereby it will police just how much data they can take—so much and no more.
Even Duck Duck Go is becoming Googleized.I've stopped using Google for searches. I would search for articles I knew were out there but Google wouldn't list them likely because of their political point of view.
Now that elections have become predetermined installations, the next "Republican" president will be groomed to serve the swamps agendas.You know the next republican President will not get the same treatment when lies about him/her will not break community standards. These people are a joke.
"Go on the offensive"? Demonrats are permanently offensive.Oil industry executives to be grilled by Democrats over 'disinformation campaign'
Democrats are expected to go on the offense as members strongly criticize the industry's lobbying efforts against aggressive energy and climate change legislation and accuse corporations of obscuring the truth about fossil fuels' warming effects.
"They need to account to the American public," said Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, chairwoman of Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, foreshadowing the hearing during a press conference earlier this week. "Why is it that they denied, time after again, the climate crisis when they knew that that was taking place, when their own scientists said that it was taking place? And why do they continue to engage in climate disinformation?"
"We're not going to solve the climate crisis until we tackle the climate disinformation crisis," he added.
The hearing comes as Democrats continue intraparty negotiations on the Build Back Better agenda, which was introduced with ambitious climate-related provisions, such as the clean electricity payment program that would pay utilities that increase their share of clean energy and raise costs on those that don’t.
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Make a vaccine that works and you won't have any trouble getting people to take it.
The flu vaccine is usually good for one year, even though it might not be for that year's strain. These vaccines lose it at 6 months. Or was that the plan all along .