Apple, Google have apologized for privacy issues but Facebook is just sorry they got caught https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/04/apple-google-have-apologized-for-privacy-issues-but-facebook-is-just-sorry-they-got-caught
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking
Google bans slew of malicious Android apps that stole user photos and advertised scams https://mashable.com/article/malicious-beauty-camera-android-apps-banned/
Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
Google and Ad Industry Accused of “Massive” Abuse of Intimate Personal Data http://fortune.com/2019/01/28/google-iab-sensitive-profiles/
“Surveillance Capitalism”: Google Sister Company To Package And Sell Location Data From Millions Of Cellphones https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-28/surveillance-capitalism-google-sister-company-package-and-sell-location-data
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/