Security & Privacy News

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1. Google makes ‘Privacy Sandbox' for Android stringent but changes could take multiple years

   By Karlston, February 17, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 605 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 17, 2022

2. Google makes privacy trade-off more explicit in new Chrome Privacy Review settings page

   By Karlston, August 7, 2021   

   • google chrome
   • privacy
   • 0 comments
   • 704 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 7, 2021

3. Google makes small Android advertising concession in wake of iOS 14.5

   By Karlston, June 4, 2021   

   • google
   • advertising
   • 0 comments
   • 759 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 4, 2021

4. Google Messages is trying to tackle today’s most annoying messaging spam

   By Karlston, October 23, 2024   

   • google messages
   • spam
   • 0 comments
   • 485 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 23, 2024

5. Google no longer allows username and passwords on third-party email applications

   By Karlston, June 20, 2022
   • 2 comments
   • 941 views
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   • Comment by hip2b2
   • May 2, 2023

6. Google not letting YouTube videos play with Opera, Firefox adblockers. Chrome is slow.

   By Karlston, March 17   

   • google
   • youtube
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • google
     • youtube
     • ads
   • 1 comment
   • 313 views
   • 
   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • March 18

7. Google now pays up to $450,000 for RCE bugs in some Android apps

   By Karlston, April 30, 2024   

   • google
   • rce bug
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • google
     • rce bug
     • bounty
   • 0 comments
   • 481 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 30, 2024

8. Google nukes 50,000 accounts pushing Chinese disinformation

   By alf9872000, January 26, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 582 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • January 26, 2023

9. Google One VPN is now available on Windows and Mac

   By Karlston, November 9, 2022   

   • google one vpn
   • 0 comments
   • 618 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 9, 2022

10. Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right?

    By Karlston, May 8, 2023   

    • google
    • passkeys
    • 1 comment
    • 708 views
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    • Comment by Kalju
    • May 8, 2023

11. Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS [and iPadOS]—here’s how

    By Karlston, February 26   

    • google password manager
    • ios & ipados
    • 0 comments
    • 264 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 26

12. Google Password Manager passkey support added to iOS and iPadOS 17 and newer

    By Karlston, January 16   

    • google password manager
    • ios & ipados
    • 0 comments
    • 414 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 16

13. Google patches 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year

    By Karlston, July 16, 2021   

    • chrome
    • zero-day
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • chrome
      • zero-day
      • patch
    • 0 comments
    • 851 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • July 16, 2021

14. Google Patches Critical Vulnerability With Chrome 99 Update

    By Reefa, March 17, 2022   

    • patches
    • google
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • patches
      • google
      • 99 update
    • 0 comments
    • 683 views
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    • Added by Reefa
    • March 17, 2022

15. Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

    By Karlston, July 4, 2022   

    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 573 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • July 4, 2022

16. Google Pixel flaw allowed recovery of redacted, cropped images

    By alf9872000, March 20, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 532 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • March 20, 2023

17. Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth

    By Karlston, October 21, 2022   

    • google play
    • 0 comments
    • 672 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 21, 2022

18. Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

    By Karlston, November 28, 2023   

    • dmca
    • google play
    • 0 comments
    • 724 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 28, 2023

19. Google Play Protect adds real-time scanning to fight Android malware

    By Karlston, October 18, 2023   

    • android
    • malware
    • 0 comments
    • 632 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 18, 2023

20. Google Play Store now forces apps to disclose what data is collected

    By Karlston, April 26, 2022
    • 1 comment
    • 829 views
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    • Comment by DKT27
    • April 29, 2022

21. Google Play will enforce business checks to curb malware submissions

    By alf9872000, July 15, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 658 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • July 15, 2023

22. Google Project Zero exposes high severity USB vulnerability in Chrome OS

    By aum, May 27, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 603 views
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    • Added by aum
    • May 27, 2022

23. Google promised to delete sensitive data. It logged my abortion clinic visit.

    By aum, May 9, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 527 views
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    • Added by aum
    • May 9, 2023

24. Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022

    By alf9872000, November 25, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 568 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • November 25, 2022

25. Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix zero-day used in attacks

    By Karlston, December 14, 2021   

    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 708 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 14, 2021