To say that the privacy implications are negligible, the potential for discrimination is nonexistent, and that Nest can’t tell Google anything it doesn’t already know is naive.

Earlier this month Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer declared that the ‘much-flawed’ European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had collapsed and the ‘old draft is dead.’ But in a speech yesterday, Commissioner Viviane Reding explained that she will persist; and she used Google as an example of why she must.

Almost a year after King.com Limited initially filed a trademark claim for the word “candy,” the filing was approved by the USPTO Wednesday. Now, app developers with games on the market that include the word in the title are reportedly receiving emails from Apple asking them to remove their apps from the App Store.

Il est urgent de rappeler sereinement les valeurs qui motivent les oppositions au spectacle de Dieudonné et répondre inlassablement aux questions qu’il pose, et auxquelles de nombreux Français semblent manifestement attendre encore des réponses. Sans cela, nous nous exposons à des scissions graves et autrement plus dangereuses que ce spectacle. Décider de ce qui est juste et de ce qui convient, en démocratie, doit toujours passer par le débat et ce débat doit rester vivant.

The volume and tone of their comments reveals a growing distrust of of Google. Is Nest’s expertise at connecting the devices in our homes simply a way for the Google to know more about us?

Je vous écris pour vous annoncer que Sarah Stierch n’est désormais plus employée par la Wikimedia Foundation, nous avons récemment appris que Sarah avait édité des articles Wikipédia au nom de certains clients qui la payaient, et ce il y a encore quelques semaines. Elle l’a fait, bien qu’il soit largement connu que l’édition rémunérée soit désapprouvée par la communauté des éditeurs et par la Wikimedia Foundation.

One morning, Agarwal got an e-mail offering “4 figures” for the sale of his Chrome extension. The extension was only about an hour’s worth of work, so Agarwal agreed to the deal, the money was sent over PayPal, and he transferred ownership of the extension to another Google account. A month later, the new extension owners released their first (and so far only) update, which injected adware on all webpages and started redirecting links. Chrome’s extension auto-update mechanism silently pushed out the update to all 30,000 Add to Feedly users, and the ad revenue likely started rolling in.