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• Italian regulators opened an investigation Wednesday into Google over alleged abuse of its dominant role in the country’s online ad market, adding to the global scrutiny that the Silicon Valley company is facing

• Italian regulators opened an investigation Wednesday into Google over alleged abuse of its dominant role in the country's online ad market, adding to the global scrutiny that the Silicon Valley company is facing.

• The Italian Competition Authority said it suspects the U.S. tech giant of using the vast amounts of data it collects through its various services to prevent rivals in the digital advertising market from competing effectively.

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• 包括资深科学家玛格丽特·米切尔在内的四位研究人员说，他们认为谷歌正在开始干扰对潜在技术危害的重要研究。

• 根据内部沟通和对其研究人员的采访显示，谷歌今年采取行动，通过启动 "敏感话题 "审查来加强对其科学家论文的控制，并在至少三个案例中要求作者不要将其技术置于负面的角度。

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• Paris, Dec 10 : France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes or CNIL, on Thursday said it fined Google and Amazon 135 million euros (around $163 million) between them for using cookies without prior consent of users.

• The committee also fined Amazon Europe Core 35 million euros for having placed advertising cookies on users’ computers, from the page amazon.fr, without obtaining prior consent and without providing adequate information, CNIL said.

• As a consequence, in addition to the financial penalty, the restricted committee also ordered the companies to adequately inform individuals, in accordance with Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, within three months after the notification of the decision.

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• 道歉 — Google

  Pichai apologized for how Google dealt with Gebru's termination.

• 调查 — Google

  Pichai also said Google would carry out a review of the events that led to Gebru's departure and where the company could have "led a more respectful process."

• 澄清 — Google

  Dean said in the email it was a "difficult moment" and he wanted to clear up what he saw as "a lot of speculation and misunderstanding on social media" about Gebru's departure from the company.

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• In the memo sent Wednesday, which an employee shared with Business Insider, Pichai apologized for how Google dealt with Gebru's termination.

• This statement implies that I was out of line and that their failure was NOT discriminating OR retaliating against me, NOR having me face a hostile work environment daily.

• Pichai also said Google would carry out a review of the events that led to Gebru's departure and where the company could have "led a more respectful process."

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• 否认 — Google

  We’ll continue to provide information to the NLRB and the administrative judge about our decision to terminate or discipline employees who abused their privileged access to internal systems, such as our security tools or colleagues’ calendars. Such actions are a serious violation of our policies and an unacceptable breach of a trusted responsibility, and we will be defending our position.

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• In a statement to TechCrunch, a Google spokesperson said the company supports the rights of its employees in the workplace.

• We’ll continue to provide information to the NLRB and the administrative judge about our decision to terminate or discipline employees who abused their privileged access to internal systems, such as our security tools or colleagues’ calendars. Such actions are a serious violation of our policies and an unacceptable breach of a trusted responsibility, and we will be defending our position.

• The NLRB also alleges Google discouraged “its employees from forming, joining, assisting a union or engaging in other protected, concerted activities,” the complaint states.

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• 否认 — Google

  A Google spokesperson said the company would fight the lawsuit and was "disappointed" that Sonos chose to sue instead of "continuing negotiations in good faith."

• 否认 — Amazon

  Amazon, meanwhile, denied that it violated any patents and said its multi-room music was "developed independently."

• 否认 — Google

  谷歌否认侵犯Sonos任何专利，并表示这些指控不实。

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• 美国国际贸易委员会现已对此展开调查。

• Representatives for Google told the Times that the company was “disappointed that Sonos brought these lawsuits instead of continuing negotiations in good faith” and that they denied the claims.

• Speaker company Sonos has filed a lawsuit against Google in two federal court systems, as reports. The Santa Barbara-based firm claims that Google knowingly infringed upon patented Sonos technology in the development of their own smart speaker systems, beginning with the launch of the Google Home series.

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• 整改 — Google

  Google says it has now pushed out a temporary fix for the problem.

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• Not only did this cause affected devices to become incredibly hot, but it also crushed the Chromebooks' performance and battery life.

• Thankfully, Google has pushed out a temporary fix that should address the problem.

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• Facebook has filed a lawsuit in California against a data analytics company it claims has illegally accessed user data.

• New Jersey-based OneAnalytics allegedly paid app developers to install a malicious software development kit (SDK) in their apps. This was designed to harvest information including name, gender, email and username of users logging in to the apps with their Facebook credentials, the social network claimed.

• The firm is said to have done the same to Twitter and Google users.

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• 澄清 — Google

  We are setting up listening sessions with leading Indian startups to understand their concerns more deeply

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• More than 200 startup founders have banded together and opened discussions with the government to stop the Alphabet Inc unit from imposing a 30 per cent fee on smartphone app purchases, its standard levy around the world.

• We are setting up listening sessions with leading Indian startups to understand their concerns more deeply

• The Mountain View, California-based company struck a chastened tone as it delayed plans until 2022 to force local developers to bill through its Play Store and hand over the 30 per cent fee.

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• 澄清 — Ring

  In a statement to Gizmodo, the Amazon-owned home security and the smart home company said it limited the amount of data it shared.

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• In a statement to Gizmodo, the Amazon-owned home security and the smart home company said it limited the amount of data it shared.

• An investigation of the Ring doorbell app for Android discovered that four main analytics and marketing companies - including Facebook and Google -- were receiving information such as the names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, persistent identifiers, and sensor data on the devices of paying customers.

• The EEF said that Ring has exhibited a pattern of behaviour that attempts to mitigate exposure to criticism and scrutiny while benefiting from the wide array of customer data available to them.

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• 调查 — Fragomen

  We promptly commenced an investigation upon learning of this activity and engaged a digital forensic investigation firm to assist with this investigation

• 整改 — Fragomen

  The law firm has since taken steps to enhance security infrastructure and detection capabilities.

• 退款或补偿 — Fragomen

  Fragomen has notified the affected people and offered free identity theft protection and credit monitoring where it is available.

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• The incident occurred Sept. 24.

• Fragomen provides I-9 services to Google.

• Fragomen said it had no evidence at this point that information in the accessed file had been viewed.

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• 整改 — Google

  The company has made changes in its systems to ensure algorithms reduce the potential for offensive results, Google said further, noting that it employs a permanent team to deal with the issue.

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• Tech giant Google responded delicately over the weekend after outrage erupted following the revelation that a search on the platform for images of a “Jewish baby stroller” turns up grossly antisemitic images.

• The search revealed various memes featuring small mobile ovens, a clear reference to the cremation of those murdered in the Nazi gas chambers.

• “These results do not reflect our opinions, and we share concerns about these low quality results,” Google said. “We’ve done considerable work in improving instances where we return low quality content, and we’ll look at this situation to see how we can return more helpful results.”

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• The same apps have also been barred from Google Ad Manager and Google AdMob, monetization channels often used on this platform.

• Google has released a blog post explaining why nearly 600 apps have just been removed from Android's Play Store. These apps were deemed guilty of "mobile ad fraud", which contravenes the Mountain View giant's policies. The apps in question include all those associated with the company Cheetah Mobile.