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Google and Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities
In late 2024, we urged Google and Amazon to honor their human rights commitments. Since then, a stream of additional reporting has reinforced that our concerns were well-founded. Yet despite mounting
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
Google Worried Israeli Contract Could Enable Human Rights Violations (Published 2024)
The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel’s military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome – Knight-Georgetown Institute
As the European Commission advances efforts under the Digital Markets Act to require Google to share its search data with competitors, lessons from historic antitrust remedies underscore how data access could be transformational in the AI-powered search market. While the Commission’s proposals represent a novel and comprehensive approach, key improvements to data scope and sharing frequency, privacy protections, and dispute resolution are needed. US courts and enforcers charged with implementing similar provisions should take note.
Declaration of Social Media Rights
Five fundamental rights we need for a free, open, and humane social media ecosystem
Google subsidizing hate group’s anti-trans and anti-diversity ads
Google’s Ad Grants program subsidizes advertisements by the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Do No Harm, including sponsored search results for the group’s so-called “Detransitioner Bill of Rights,” according to a search of Google’s ad transparency data.1 Do No Harm’s model policy, the “Detransitioner Bill of Rights,” wrongly suggests that gender-affirming healthcare can “contribute” to distress among […]
A Former Google Engineer Built a Search Engine for Finding Every Privacy Violation You Face Online
Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges
A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…
EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users
Google's Failure to Warn Users About Law Enforcement Demands for Data Is Deceptive
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
