#KeepAndroidOpen: #AdGuard urges #Google to rethink policy that could restrict independent #Android app distribution

https://adguard.com/en/blog/google-android-app-verification-requirement-petition.html

#sideloading #privacy #cybersecurity

Here’s What a #Google #Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the #EpsteinFiles

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-a-google-subpoena-response-looks-like-courtesy-of-the-epstein-files/

#privacy

#1Campaign platform helps malicious #GoogleAds evade detection

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/1campaign-platform-helps-malicious-google-ads-evade-detection/

#malvertising #cybersecurity #Google #advertising

@fdroidorg @marcprux At this point it would be crazy to develop any Free/Libre application for Android. Don't care what Google says tomorrow, we can NOT trust Big Tech. We need to be in control of our computing resources, both at software and hardware level.
PS: @EUCommission please take note.
#Google #Android #Freedom #GNU

#Google Wants to Control Your Device

https://blog.jmp.chat/b/2026-google-wants-to-control-your-device

#Sideloading #FOSS #Android

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

In the U.S., police are finding suspects based on their online searches as courts weigh privacy concerns.

@AssociatedPress reports authorities "have been asking Google to reveal who searched for specific information online, seeking 'reverse keyword' warrants."

https://flip.it/FtogoN

#Privacy #Google #Tech #Crime #Technology

Absolutely love it… Just gave the middle finger to Google and their privacy invasive practices with YouTube. How’d I do it? Used Podman, Yattee/Yattee Server and Invidious plus TailScale to run a privacy-preserving proxy that hopefully will slam the door on the adds and tracking that I’d normally have to deal with, and I will no longer hopefully have to fork over the dinero to Google for YouTube Premium. It’s just for my personal use, not intended for public use, but I’m proud that I found a self-hosted solution. #SelfHosted #Podman #Yattee #Invidious #Tailscale #Privacy #NoAds #NoTracking #Google #YouTube

Keep Android Open

Im August 2025 hat Google angekündigt, dass es ab September 2026 nicht mehr möglich sein wird, Anwendungen für die Android-Plattform zu entwickeln, ohne sich zuvor bei Google registriert zu haben.
— @fdroidorg

📱 https://keepandroidopen.org/de/

#android #google #opensource #handy #mobile #smartphone #fdroid #freiheit #freesoftware #keepandroidopen

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/11/google-ai-shopping-search-gemini-privacy-warren-xcxwbn/

Google AI Shopping Sparks Privacy Concerns from Elizabeth Warren

#AI #Google #Gemini #Ecommerce #AIShopping #ConsumerPrivacy #ElizabethWarren #BigTech #AgenticAI #GoogleSearch #AISearch #SearchEngines #GoogleSearch

#Google blocked over 1.75 million #PlayStore app submissions in 2025

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-blocked-over-175-million-play-store-app-submissions-in-2025/

#cybersecurity #Android

Proton survey (UK, Germany, France): 73% see Europe too dependent on US tech, 83% concerned 🇪🇺

74% listed firms use Google/Microsoft email/cloud; top wants: privacy (55-60%), security (61-70%) 🔒

Signups up 80% in Nordics post-Greenland threats 🧭

@protonprivacy

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/european-alternative-us-tech-survey

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Europe #Data #Sovereignty #IT #Digital #Google #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Greenland #FOSS #US #USA #LibreOffice #Politics #France #UK #Germany

Die verstörend leichte #Massenüberwachung mit Standortdaten #LocateX

Die Massenüberwachung von Abermillionen Handys ist nun auch per Gratis-Demo möglich, wie Recherchen aus den USA zeigen. Das Werkzeug heißt „Locate X“, angeboten von der US-Firma Babel Street. Die Bedienung ist offenbar kinderleicht. Auf einer digitalen Karte, ähnlich wie Google Maps, lassen sich beliebige Orte auswählen, zum Beispiel Moscheen oder Abtreibungskliniken. Dann zeigt das Tool an, welche Handys auf dem ausgewählten Gelände geortet wurden – und auf Wunsch, wo sich ein ausgewähltes Gerät noch überall hinbewegt hat.....
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https://netzpolitik.org/2024/locate-x-die-verstoerend-leichte-massenueberwachung-mit-standortdaten/

#Überwachung #Google #Werbung #Smartphones #Antireport

@kylebronsdon Every project has an agenda. #FDroid's agenda is about Keeping Android Open, for everyone, not only our or your favorite project.

While we both have the privilege of running a distro that cares about our freedom, we march for the rest of the users, the 3.9 billion ones that are not here in our (tech and social) bubble. For our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and more, that will not be able to install the same privacy respecting, secure software, just because #Google said so.

@bkoehn

#Google when talking in court against #EpicGames: "we are open"

Google when talking with #FLOSS devs: "not for you"

As Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify in a landmark social media trial, here’s a deep dive into how these platforms keep you clicking, the potential harms to children, and how a ruling could reshape how social media companies operate around the world.

https://flip.it/tvj3_j

#Technology #SocialMedia #MarkZuckerberg #Google

New #Keenadu #backdoor found in #Android #firmware, #GooglePlay apps

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-keenadu-backdoor-found-in-android-firmware-google-play-apps/

#cybersecurity #Google

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

#Google patches first #Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-patches-first-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-this-year/

#cybersecurity

Google’s #AI Overviews Can #Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.
#Google #security

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-overviews-can-scam-you-heres-how-to-stay-safe/

Police recovered "deleted" Nest Doorbell footage from Nancy Guthrie via Google's residual backend data, despite no subscription. 🔍

Expired clips retrieved by FBI post-removal expose retained cloud data accessible to law enforcement. ⚠️

"Deleted" ≠ gone, raising user privacy risks. 🛡️

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

#TechNews #Privacy #Google #NestCam #Nest #Surveillance #DataRetention #Cybersecurity #SmartHome #DigitalRights #UserRights #DataProtection #Biometrics #Accountability #GDPR #Police #FBI

Guthrie case reveals that #Google stores video from #Nest cameras even after "officially" deleted

https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/google-recovers-deleted-nest-video-in-high-profile-abduction-case/

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-secure-form-builder-is-my-google-forms-replacement/

Don't trust Google Forms
Google has a long-standing history of invading privacy, in addition to its history of randomly deleting user's files.

With this in mind, Google is probably not the Best place to share or store information, Enter CryptPad

#Privacy #Google #CryptPad #DeGoogle

#Claude-linked #Google ads dupe #macOs users into installing #malware

https://adguard.com/en/blog/claude-google-ads-malware-poisoning-macos.html

#cybersecurity #AI #malvertising #advertising #Mac

#Google says hackers are abusing #Gemini #AI for all attacks stages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-says-hackers-are-abusing-gemini-ai-for-all-attacks-stages/

#cybersecurity

Zweiter Teil der kritischen Textreihe zu #KI von Capulcu

Die Goldgräber der künstlichen Intelligenz
"Spätestens mit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT hat KI den #Mainstream erreicht und genießt die volle Aufmerksamkeit der Medien. Die Leistung dieser Software scheint eine Schwelle überschritten zu haben. KI wird jetzt nicht mehr als belächelnswerter netter Versuch wahrgenommen oder als beachtenswerte Leistung in einer nerdigen kleinen Nische, sondern ist in ihre Gegenteil gekippt; eine Technologie, die auf dem besten Wege sei, die Menschheit in Sachen Intelligenz zu überflügeln. Das geht soweit, dass ein an der Entwicklung beteiligter Ingenieur bei Google nicht von der Behauptung abzubringen war, dass “seine” KI ein Bewusstsein entwickelt hat. #Google war das augenscheinlich so unangenehm, dass die Kündigung folgte.
#ChatGPT als textgenerierende KI und andere bildgenerierende KIs (z.B. Midjourney) sind Schaufensterprodukte der Branche. Ohne sie hätte die teils enthusiastische, teils beunruhigte Reaktion der Öffentlichkeit auf KI nicht stattgefunden. AlphaGo, eine KI, die den amtierenden Weltmeister im Spiel Go wiederholt geschlagen hat, hatte dazu noch nicht ausgereicht. Die apokalyptischen Warnungen aus der KI-Szene greifen genau diese Stimmung auf."

https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/2023/10/20/die-goldgraeber-der-kuenstlichen-intelligenz/

#Google recovers “deleted” #Nest video in high-profile abduction case

https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/google-recovers-deleted-nest-video-in-high-profile-abduction-case/

#privacy #NestDoorbell #NancyGuthrie

#Google releases the first beta of #Android17, adopts a continuous developer release plan

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/google-releases-the-first-beta-of-android-17-adopts-a-continous-developer-release-plan/

#Android

Have you folks noticed how the recent stream of #JavaScript-related security issues in browsers has NOT resulted in a call from #Google to expunge #JS from the “web platform” as it was done for #XSLT?

#WHATWG #hypocrisy #hypocrites #openWeb #indieWeb

Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

#Privacy #Google #GAFAM

#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding Student #Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

#privacy #politics

Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial in the U.S.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt spoke of the disagreement within the scientific community over social media addiction, with some researchers believing it doesn’t exist."

https://flip.it/t_hCHI

#SocialMedia #Google #Meta #Tech #Technology

Google Blog: A simpler way to remove explicit images from Search. “Today, we’re introducing a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search. This update builds on the range of protections in Search for victims of this harmful content.”

Facebook and Google are handing over user #data to help police prosecute #abortion seekers

"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like #Google and #Facebook are helping. 
This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in #Nebraska for performing an illegal abortion — with a key piece of evidence provided by #Meta, the parent company of Facebook."

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #sozialeKontrolle #criminalisation #USA #antireport #MyBodyMyChoice

#Google sells your Information to Cops

#Data #Surveillance #Privacy

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Google sells your information to cops

Don't let Google & co. take over our lives and spaces!
Fuck off #Google!

"Google steals and exploits our #data for profit and turned this behaviour into a norm. It also colonizes our physical spaces. Google canceled its plan for a ‘Google Campus’ in Kreuzberg, Berlin under pressure by the neighborhood; yet it continues its expansion worldwide.
As a decentralized network of people, we want to keep our lives and spaces free from this law- and tax-evading company and its peers, and oppose the dystopian future they offer.
More on our wiki....."
https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net

#Surveillance #capitalism #Antirepor #Data #Privacy

Alt...

big above the search bar it says Fuck off Google in different colours then the search bar below it says "Results are sourced through a proxy from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. to ensure that you do not share any personal or behavioural information with these companies. These results are "neutral", meaning they are not influenced by your profile (you are outside the "filter bubble" used to present you with ads you are more likely to click on...). This service is brought to you by neighbours from Kreuzberg (Berlin) and an international group working together to drive a "Google Campus" out of our neighbourhood and Google (and its world!) out of our lives. Join us! (Our server does its best to protect your privacy: no logs are stored)."