Google postpones Chrome changes that could have big impact on ad blocking extensions https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23506988/google-chrome-manifest-v3-v2-transition-ad-blocking-web-request-declarative-net
New Google Photos Upgrade Makes Key Feature Worse https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2022/12/11/google-improves-privacy-of-google-photos-but-makes-key-feature-worse/
Ads disappear across the internet as Google Ad Manager briefly goes down https://fortune.com/2022/12/08/google-ad-manager-down-outage-alphabet-websites/
Google Unified security and privacy settings is available for other devices too https://www.realmicentral.com/2022/12/07/google-unified-security-and-privacy-settings-is-available-for-other-devices-too/
Google shares details of newly found commercial spyware threats https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-shares-newly-found-commercial-spyware-threats/
Google Messages starts rolling out end-to-end encrypted group chats https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-end-to-end-encrypted-group-chats-rolling-out/
‘I don’t have the faintest idea what Google has on me’: Google fell short on privacy promises, employees say. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-dont-have-the-faintest-idea-what-google-has-on-me-google-fell-short-on-privacy-promises-employees-say-11668779086
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/france_no_windows_google/
Tax prep software sent back personal consumer data to Meta and Google, report says https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/popular-tax-prep-software-sent-financial-information-to-meta-report.html
Mass. health officials worked with Google to covertly install COVID ‘spyware’ into 1M phones, lawsuit claims https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/mass-health-officials-google-covid-spyware-1m-phones-lawsuit
Google Cloud announces Epic partnership https://www.axios.com/2022/11/14/google-cloud-announces-epic-partnership
40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392M https://apnews.com/article/google-privacy-settlement-location-data-57da4f0d3ae5d69b14f4b284dd084cca
South Korea fines Google, Meta over privacy violations https://apnews.com/article/technology-south-korea-252a9cc71f0875575340ade7265af951
Ad blockers struggle under Chrome’s new rules https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/ad_blockers_chrome_manifest_v3/
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