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No more dessert names, Google to officially call new OS ‘Android 10’

8:32 pm August 23, 2019

New Delhi: Google, which named its operating system versions after tasty treats like Lollipop and KitKat, has announced that it will just use the version number going forward, and the latest edition is to be called ‘Android 10’. In a blog post, Google said its engineering team always used internal code names for each version, […]

India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook, WhatsApp with new rules

SC seeks Centre’s reply on Facebook’s plea over linking social media accounts with Aadhaar

11:38 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Tuesday sought response from the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Facebook Inc’s plea seeking transfer of cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar, pending in different high courts to the apex court. The top court agreed to hear the Facebook plea and sought responses of […]

Germany orders Google to take humans out of audio loop

10:41 pm August 2, 2019

Frankfurt am Main: A German data protection official has convinced Google to stop human workers from listening to audio recorded by its digital assistant across the EU, after a leak showed staff could hear private conversations. “To provisionally protect the rights of privacy of data subjects for the time being,” Hamburg commissioner for data protection […]

New Zealand slams Google over murder case gaffe

2:54 pm July 4, 2019

Wellington: Google was accused of “giving the middle finger” by New Zealand’s Justice Minister Thursday, after the US tech giant refused to tighten publication standards after breaching court suppression orders in a high-profile murder case. A Google news email that went out to the general public named the accused killer of Briton Grace Millane in December, despite […]

Govts need to clearly define legal-illegal speech for content-sharing platforms: Google

10:41 pm June 24, 2019

New Delhi: Batting for shared responsibility, tech giant Google has stated that governments need to draw clear lines between “legal and illegal” speech for content-sharing platforms, as lack of clear definitions could lead to “arbitrary” enforcement that limits access to legitimate information. Google said content-sharing platforms are already working on developing content policies that set up baseline expectations for […]