Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol ...

Scammers Will Try to Trick You Into Filling Out Google Forms. Don’t Fall for It

In general, you shouldn't be entering any login information or payment details into a Google Forms document (it will start with docs.google.com in your browser's address bar). These forms may look ...

Google, Meta Beat Consumer Lawsuit Over Drug-Data Collection

Google LLC and Meta Platforms Inc. defeated a lawsuit alleging they unlawfully collected the personal information of patients ...
Courthouse News Service

Jury slams Google over app data collection to tune of $425 million

FILE - A man walks past Google's offices in London's Kings Cross area, on Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A jury found Wednesday that Google violated users’ privacy ...
Engadget

Google ordered to pay $425 million in app data collection lawsuit

Google must pay $425 million to the plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit that accused the company of collecting users' data even after they've turned off a tracking feature, a federal jury has decided ...
TechSpot

Google is "enhancing" Play Games profiles with more data collection (and some privacy controls)

A hot potato: Google Play Games has offered user profiles since 2013, but its latest update raises questions about how much data is really needed. The enhanced profiles will collect more information ...

Google debuts Data Commons MCP Server to ground AI agents in trusted data

The MCP server has been designed to work as a standardized interface, allowing AI systems to query Data Commons directly ...

Google improves AI summaries of Forms responses

Google's update gets rid of that manual "Summarize responses" button entirely. Now, the moment you switch over to the ...
Fox Business

Google to pay $425 million after years of improper spying on smartphone activity

A federal jury ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for invading users' privacy by collecting data over an eight-year period on millions of people who had turned off a tracking feature in their Google ...
Newsweek

Google Issues Worldwide Gmail Data Breach Warning

Google has issued a global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their passwords following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. Though consumer Gmail and ...
The Indianapolis Star

Google data center to be challenged in final vote by Indianapolis councilors. What to know

As Google's proposed data center on the far southeast side seems poised for rejection by the Indianapolis City-County Council, the tech titan will have one last chance to make its case later this ...
Computer Weekly

Google/DoJ antitrust ruling: Google must share data

Google will not need to sell off its Chrome browser – which is what the US Department of Justice (DoJ) had called for – as a remedy for violating antitrust laws. Instead, the US District Court for the ...