Privacy concerns with Google

Privacy concerns with Google include a wide range of issues and controversies related to collection, use, and sharing of user data across Google products, services, and platforms, including Google Search. Since the mid-2000s, civil liberties organizations and government regulators have criticized and taken action against Google related to Internet privacy issues in its data collection and data retention policies, web tracking practices, cooperation with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies, and other activities. These concerns are a frequent theme in criticism of Google.

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

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Google LLC, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Originally developed as a search engine...

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

Expanding our use of Google Cloud TPUs and Services

Announcing a dramatic increase in Anthropic's compute resources

The Fight Against Google’s Minnesota Data Centers - UNICORN RIOT

Minnesota residents are organizing against proposed hyperscale data centers, especially Google-linked projects in Pine Island and Hermantown, citing secrecy through NDAs, inadequate environmental review, and issues with water use, electricity, noise pollution and more.

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…

Google’s Prompt API

No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips: Report

The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40 per cent of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors last week, according ‌to the report.

Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass | René Mayrhofer

I am forced to leave Google with 2026-08-31 because of the deal with the US Department of War, which is incompatible with my ethical principles.

Investor money vs. public interest: did Google fail to build a non-evil platform?

Don’t be evil. That was Google’s official motto, until recently.

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In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, wrote in a paper that “advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Two years later, Google began building a multi-billion-dollar business running ads alongside search.

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

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

Not OK, Google | TechCrunch

At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers' personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far more data -- and data of a far more intimate nature -- than ever before.