The documentary “Plandemic” by Mikki Willis has raised the bet on internet censorship to a whole new level. Across the board, the cinema has been banned from social media platforms and obscured by Google. If you do an online search for it, all you find are dozens of pages with …
Read More »Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands every day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power. By Naomi Klein Republished with permission from The Intercept For a few fleeting times during the New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday 6 May, the …
Read More »Diagnosing Traffic Drops During a Crisis: Was It You, Google, or the Whole World?
Posted by Dr-Pete We want to fix things and believe we’re in control. When your home is filling with sea, you grab a container. If there’s a loophole in your roof, the container might help. If your sag is overflowing, the pail is distracting you from the real problem. If …
Read More »2020 Local SEO Success: How to Feed, Fight, and Flip Google
Posted by MiriamEllis Image credit: Migaspinto If you own or marketplace a business location that makes a real-world community more serviceable, diverse, and strong, I’m on your side. I love interesting towns and cities, with a wide array of useful goods and services. Nothing in my vocation satisfies me more …
Read More »Google Search Now Has a (I’ll Probably Never) Watchlist
There is entirely too much content out there–so much so that slew of folks find it quite literally overwhelming. And trying to keep track of all those horror movies and melodramatic actuality presents and whodunnits starring Chris Evans in a cable knitting sweater( oh ok, penalty. There’s only one of …
Read More »Fintech’s next decade will look radically different
The birth and growth of financial technology developed predominantly over the last ten years. So as we look ahead, what does the next decade have in store? I believe we’re starting to see early signs: in the next ten years, fintech will become portable and ubiquitous as it moves to …
Read More »Pornhub sheds light on 2019 Android stats that Google refuses to release
Photo by Ethan Miller/ Getty Images Pornhub has liberated its annual Year in Review blog, and it contains some noteworthy data about, of all things, Android OS usage statistics, as observed by Android Police. The data is interesting because Google hasn’t updated its own dashboard of how many machines are …
Read More »FBI secretly demands a ton of consumer data from credit agencies. Now lawmakers want answers
Recently liberated documents exposed the FBI has for years secretly challenged vast amounts of Americans’ customer and financial information from the largest U.S. credit agencies. The FBI regularly uses these legal powers — known as national protection letters — to compel credit giants to turn over non-content information, such as …
Read More »Google Secretly Collecting Data On Millions Of Americans, Not Telling Patients Or Doctors, Report Says
Tech giant Google is reportedly engaged in collecting the personal health information of tens of millions of Americans across 21 countries — a project dubbed “Project Nightingale” — and have not been able to notified patients or physicians about what they are doing. ” Google began Project Nightingale in secret …
Read More »Little Timmy vs. Google Spies
Children are spending an alarming amount of occasion watching media on various screens and machines, but among other issues, Google-owned YouTube is emerging as one of the biggest threats to their well-being. In fact, Google must pay a record $ 170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission …
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