Google to Settle Lawsuit by , Destroying Billions of Private Browsing Records.
In 2020, Google was sued by numerous
users who claimed that the tech giant
secretly tracked their internet use despite
browsing in Chrome's incognito mode.
The plaintiffs claim that this allowed
Google to be an "unaccountable trove
of information," 'The Guardian' reports.
To settle the lawsuit, Google has agreed
to destroy billions of private records.
The company will also update
its "private" browsing disclosures. .
Additionally, incognito users will be
able to "block third-party cookies for
five years," 'The Guardian' reports.
The result is that Google will
collect less data from users’ private
browsing sessions, and that Google
will make less money from the data, Plaintiffs' lawyer, via 'The Guardian'.
While Google supports the settlement, it
does not agree with the "legal and factual characterizations" put forth by the plaintiffs.
We are limited in how strongly we
can market Incognito because it’s
not truly private, thus requiring
really fuzzy, hedging language
that is almost more damaging. , Google’s chief marketing officer, Lorraine Twohill,
wrote to the CEO, Sundar Pichai, in 2019, via 'The Guardian'.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs called
the agreement "a historic step in
requiring honesty and accountability
from dominant technology companies.".
While plaintiffs will not receive damages as part of this settlement, they could still sue individually to be monetarily compensated.
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Google ‘Working Around the Clock’ , to Fix Gemini AI , as CEO Calls Responses ‘Unacceptable’.
On Feb. 27, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent
a note to employees saying that some of
its AI tool's responses were "biased" and "completely unacceptable," Reuters reports. .
On Feb. 27, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent
a note to employees saying that some of
its AI tool's responses were "biased" and "completely unacceptable," Reuters reports. .
Our teams have been working around
the clock to address these issues. , Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, via note to employees.
We're already seeing a substantial
improvement on a wide
range of prompts... , Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, via note to employees.
And we'll review what happened
and make sure we fix it at scale, Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, via note to employees.
Gemini was paused on Feb. 22 after
"offering inaccuracies in some historical
image generation depictions," Google said.
Some of those inaccuracies included
racially diverse Nazis, The Verge reports. .
Three weeks ago, we launched a new
image generation feature for the
Gemini conversational app (formerly
known as Bard), which included the
ability to create images of people. It’s
clear that this feature missed the mark. , Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of
Google's Knowledge & Information, via blog post.
Some of the images generated are
inaccurate or even offensive. We’re
grateful for users’ feedback and are
sorry the feature didn't work well, Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of
Google's Knowledge & Information, via blog post.
Gemini will reportedly be
relaunched in the coming weeks
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Google Fires Employees , for Protesting Israel Contract.
28 Google workers have been fired for protesting
a $1.2 billion contract that the company has with
the Israeli government and military to provide
cloud and AI services, NBC News reports. .
The firings follow an April 16 sit-in at
Google's offices in California, New York and Seattle in which nine workers were arrested.
The group that coordinated the demonstration
is known as No Tech for Apartheid. .
Google issued a statement about the recent firings.
A small number of employee
protesters entered and disrupted
a few of our locations. , Google spokesperson, via statement.
Physically impeding other employees’
work and preventing them from
accessing our facilities is a clear
violation of our policies, and
completely unacceptable behavior. , Google spokesperson, via statement.
We have so far concluded
individual investigations that
resulted in the termination of
employment for 28 employees,
and will continue to investigate
and take action as needed, Google spokesperson, via statement.
No Tech for Apartheid claims that the
workers were fired "indiscriminately.".
This excuse to avoid confronting
us and our concerns directly,
and attempt to justify its illegal,
retaliatory firings, is a lie, No Tech for Apartheid, via statement.
Meanwhile, many of Google's workers have
reportedly quit after experiencing "mental health consequences of working at a company that is using their labor to enable a genocide," No Tech for Apartheid said.
On a personal level, I am opposed
to Google taking any military
contracts — no matter which
government they’re with or what
exactly the contract is about. , Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based
in Washington who was arrested during a sit-in, to CNBC
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