Google published a Transparency report on protecting emails as they travel across the web. Moreover Google released the end-to-end encryption for Chrome.
Gmail has always supported encryption in transit by using Transport Layer Security (TLS), and will automatically encrypt your incoming and outgoing emails if it can. The important thing is that both sides of an email exchange need to support encryption for it to work; Gmail can't do it alone. Our data show that approximately 40 to 50 percent of emails sent between Gmail and other email providers aren’t encrypted. Many providers have turned on encryption, and others have said they’re going to, which is great news. As they do, more and more emails will be shielded from snooping.
Read moreThe division of Google which is engaged in "clever" Nest thermostats wants to buy the Dropcam Company which makes continuous tracking cameras for house.
Google’s Nest division is plotting a move into the home-security market for smart house. The division of Nest making intelligent thermostats, is going to accelerate increase in presence at "the Internet of things" having bought Dropcam company. The status of any talks between Google and Dropcam isn’t clear, spokespeople for both companies did not respond to requests for comment. Dropcam makes a $150 camera that streams footage to phones and computers. Cameras are connected to home Wi-Fi network that assumes remote management.
Read moreEurope's moves to rein in Google — including a court ruling this month ordering the search giant to give people a say in what pops up when someone searches their name — may be seen in Brussels as striking a blow for the little guy.
But across the Atlantic, the idea that users should be able to edit Google search results in the name of privacy is being slammed as weird and difficult to enforce at best and a crackdown on free speech at worst. "Americans will find their searches bowdlerized by prissy European sensibilities," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "We'll be the big losers. The big winners will be French ministers who want the right to have their last mistress forgotten."
Read moreGoogle is gearing up to offer businesses WiFi at a subsidized price. Google will offer the “commercial-grade” WiFi service to businesses like restaurants, medical offices, and gyms at a “steep discount,” according to the report.
It could unveil this worldwide as soon as this summer. This would allow businesses to offer better WiFi service to its customers, which fits in part with Google’s mission to provide internet access to the entire world. Developed by the Google Access unit that runs Google Fibre, the WiFi offering would use a kind of technology called Hotspot 2.0, which enables automatic connections to WiFi networks after logging in just once.
Read moreGoogle already generates a significant amount of money from ads on search results, but its ads could reach further than desktop and smartphone screens.
In a letter to the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) sent in December, the company said it could be serving ads and other content on “refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses and watches, to name just a few possibilities.” The reason for this statement was because Google was justifying why it didn’t reveal what revenue it generated through mobile, even though other companies like Facebook and Twitter did. It said that the definition of ‘mobile’ is changing and could evolve further as smart devices are added into the mix.
Read moreThe European Union court decision that Google users have the "right to be forgotten" is already causing problems for the search engine. In just a short 48 hours since the ruling was handed down, an ex-politician and convicted pedophile have asked Google to remove links to their stories from the site, a request the court says they must honor.
The politician is planning to run for office once more, and wanted stories about his prior behavior in office (which we can assume was not to the taste of his voters) removed from search. The pedophile has asked links to websites about his conviction to be removed, meaning it would be harder for neighbors and potential landlords to check into his criminal history before inviting the man to a location potentially surrounded by children.
Read moreGoogle Inc. and more than 100 other software, social-media and technology companies said they oppose a U.S. proposal to let Internet-service providers charge them extra for faster routes to Web users.
The rules may let telephone-service and cable providers “discriminate both technically and financially” and would be “a grave threat to the Internet,” the companies said yesterday in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission. Other signers included Facebook Inc. (FB), Netflix Inc. and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has asked the agency to vote May 15 on whether to begin writing rules to let Internet-service providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. negotiate deals with content makers like Google for quicker and more reliable delivery of video and other fare.
Read moreInternet service providers must turn over customer emails and other digital content sought by U.S. government search warrants even when the information is stored overseas, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
In what appears to be the first court decision addressing the issue, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis in New York said Internet service providers such as Microsoft Corp or Google Inc cannot refuse to turn over customer information and emails stored in other countries when issued a valid search warrant from U.S. law enforcement agencies. If U.S. agencies were required to coordinate efforts with foreign governments to secure such information, Francis said, "the burden on the government would be substantial, and law enforcement efforts would be seriously impeded."
Read moreIn response to Edward Snowden’s mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is an encryption utility that historically has been difficult to break. But Google has “research underway to improve the usability of PGP with Gmail,” according to a person at the company familiar with the matter.
VentureBeat’s source at Google acknowledged that “end-to-end encryption is the best defense for message protection, though it comes at considerable cost in functionality.” PGP is currently compatible with Google’s Gmail service, although it’s widely regarded as unapproachable to a majority of Internet users — like the Tor project.
Read moreApple founder Steve Jobs was planning to wage a "Holy War" against Google a year before he died, a higly confidential email has revealed.
Jobs sent the email in 2010 to his top 100 most senior executives, in which he outlined the company's strategy for the following year.
In it, he announced that 2011 would see a 'Holy War' between Apple and Google, and outlined all the ways in which the two companies would compete – from cloud services to mobile operating systems.
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