Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday, calling it ...

Google might not be completely ready to give up website cookies just yet, but the company is certainly investigating alternatives like a user-tracking ad platform built into one of the most popular ...

Google said Wednesday that it will restrict advertisers' ability to track users of Android phones and other devices. It joins Apple in taking steps to strengthen privacy for U.S. consumers, a sea ...

Google is set to limit cross-app tracking on Android devices as part of a broader extension of its privacy controls, bringing it more in line with Apple's policies. The tech giant revealed on ...

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When signed in to your Google account, your searches, clicked links, images, and videos are tracked. Things like your IP address, device, and which ads you click are tracked even when you're not ...

Google has reached a $93 million settlement with the state of California to resolve allegations that it was collecting consumers’ data without their consent, the state’s attorney general said in a ...

Topics API ad personalization, which replaces Google's earlier FLoC proposal for Chrome, promises to occur on your device, without involvement from Google or third-party servers. Google’s latest stab ...

Update March 31, 2022: Never mind! The Google Workspace privacy changes are not going live this week. Google originally scheduled the changes to go live March 29, but now two days after the launch ...