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Google and Facebook collect excessive amounts of user data

An analysis of the amount of data tech giants like Google and Facebook store from tracking user data, showing how the processing of personal user data is their core business model. source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2018/03/30/google-and-facebook-collect-excessive-amount-of-user-data-archived-source/
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Google and Facebook collect excessive amounts of user data – archived source

Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you Dylan Curran – Fri 30 Mar – 2018 08.17 BST First published on Wed 28 Mar 2018 11.00 BST The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a […]
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Google tries to silence free press for reporting about their unfair market practices

A journalist was forced to take down a critical article which describes the practices used by Google which can be seen as an unfair way to gain a competitive advantage on the online search engine market. It shows the influence Google tries to force even upon the free press to silence critical voices about their […]
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Google tries to silence free press for reporting about their unfair market practices – archived source

Yes, Google Uses Its Power To Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like — I Know Because It Happened To Me Kashmir Hill – September 1, 2017 at 2:45 pm The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the […]
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Google changes it’s terms of services to allow even more excessive tracking of users

Despite claims in the past the data collected via the different online services offered by the company, Google changed the paragraph from their terms of services, allowing to combine the data collected from all their services and track the users in an even more extended way. source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-disable-google-ad-tracking-gmail-youtube-browser-history archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2016/10/21/google-changes-its-terms-of-services-to-allow-even-more-excessive-tracking-of-users-archived-source/
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Google changes it’s terms of services to allow even more excessive tracking of users – archived source

Google’s ad tracking is as creepy as Facebook’s. Here’s how to disable it Olivia Solon in San Francisco – Fri 21 Oct 2016 23.48 BST – First published on Fri 21 Oct 2016 22.30 BST Google in June deleted a clause in its privacy settings that said it would not combine cookie information with personal information […]
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Google pulls adblocking app for Samsung phones

Google banned an app used for blocking ads from their app store as it was interrupting their core business, to subject their users to as many ads online as possible for revenue. source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2016/02/03/google-pulls-adblocking-app-for-samsung-phones-archived-souce/
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Google pulls adblocking app for Samsung phones – archived souce

Google pulls adblocking app for Samsung phones Jasper Jackson – Wed 3 Feb 2016 23.19 GMT Adblock Fast downloaded 50,000 times since Monday – but is thought to have breached Google’s rules for disrupting third-party services Google has pulled an adblocking app for Samsung phones from its Play Store just days after it was launched. The Adblock […]
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Google aids Pakistan in censorship of their video platform

Google collaborates with the government in Pakistan to deploy a local version of the video platform YouTube, allowing the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to censor the platform’s content on their own behalf. Prior to the collaboration the service was completely banned in the country due to the lack of censorship possibilities. Instead of standing in for […]
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Google aids Pakistan in censorship of their video platform – archived source

Pakistan’s YouTube ban lifted Reuters – Tue 19 Jan 2016 07.37 GM TLast modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 04.00 GMT Video-sharing site has launched a local channel that gives the government power to demand material is withdrawn Pakistan has removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the video-sharing website launched a local version that […]
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