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Neeva is a search engine that was awaited with great interest. After all, it was designed by those ex-Googlers who had significantly contributed to Google search. Now it's here. In the United States of America, there is now an alternative to Google search that comes from the same people who created Google search - at least in part. However, Neeva is taking a completely different approach than its counterpart called Search, which remains with Google. Google "littered" with advertising While Google Search is free of charge, the use of Neeva costs around five US dollars per month after the first three free months. In return, Neeva does not display any advertising and does not perform any tracking of its visitors or clicked search results. Excessive advertising and increasingly intrusive tracking have prompted the Neeva makers to present their own design of a search engine. Their belief : "Mainstream search engines no longer primarily serve the user. They're littered...

Google is facing a formal investigation in the EU into its lucrative advertising business. In contrast to previous investigations, this time the entire value chain is at stake. The EU Commission could initiate formal proceedings against Google's digital advertising business. The investigation is expected to start later this year, Reuters has learned from insiders. Apparently, it is a reaction to a previous unofficial investigation. In January, Google had to fill out two questionnaires from the EU Commission, including one on its advertising business. Now a formal investigation is to follow. Investigation with a new dimension The investigation is to look at Google's position compared to advertisers, publishers, intermediaries and competitors, Reuters reports. At issue is whether Google is exploiting its power and making conditions more difficult for other market players. The EU's antitrust watchdogs have imposed billions of dollars in fines on Google in the past. Google...

Court documents have surfaced on the web that indicate that Google deliberately hid important privacy options as deeply as possible in Android's settings so that users would not use them if possible. Third-party manufacturers apparently also tried to persuade them to hide the options. Serious accusations against Google: According to a report in Business Insider, the Android makers have deliberately hidden important privacy options as deep as possible in the operating system's settings. This is apparently from unredacted court documents, which are currently no longer accessible on the web, however. Accordingly, Google had tested Android versions in which the settings for data protection and data collection were quite easy to find, whereupon these were also adjusted accordingly more often by the users. This was a "problem" for Google, which is why the options are hidden deeper in the settings. In addition, Google probably tried to persuade third-party manufacturers like...

A security vulnerability in Google Chrome is currently being exploited by cyber criminals. Malware could land on your PC through it. Read here how you can protect yourself. The Google Chrome browser is currently struggling with some security vulnerabilities. In a blog post , Google warns about a total of seven vulnerabilities, with the majority of these gaps being classified as a "high" threat to users. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Linux and macOS. If you have Chrome version 90.0.4430.85 installed, it can no longer be exploited. If you have an older version of the browser installed, you should update urgently. You can find the download of the new version below these lines. Smartphone users do not have to be afraid of the security vulnerability. Google has not had to take any security measures here for the time being. The security vulnerability probably remained undiscovered by cyber criminals for the time being. So far, noth...

Google is currently facing a lawsuit from a data protection activist. He accuses the software giant of illegally tracking Android users with advertising IDs without their own consent. The Viennese data protection activist Max Schrems has filed a lawsuit against Google in France. He accuses the US tech giant of illegally tracking Android phone users without their consent. The Austrian data protection organization Noyb made the announcement on Wednesday, confirming a report in the British daily Financial Times. Smartphones running Google's Android operating system generate unique advertising IDs that allow Google and third-party vendors to track users' browsing behavior in order to target them with ads. In a complaint to the French data protection authority CNIL, Schrems' privacy organization Noyb argues that Google did not explicitly ask users for permission before creating and storing the advertising codes. These were "illegal operations." Noyb had previously supp...

Even when Google users surf "incognito," Google collects data. A US lawsuit wants to change that. Google has tried to avoid the lawsuit - in vain. Google is facing another US court case regarding data protection. Some users have sued Google because the company collects data even when users use the incognito mode of the Chrome browser. Google thus illegally invaded the privacy of millions of users. Google filed the usual motion to dismiss the case in the USA. However, the federal judge in charge, Lucy Koh, has now rejected this request. The parties to the lawsuit can now prepare for the main trial. The core of the case is that Google collects data for user profiles via its own websites and countless third-party websites, even when users have activated the incognito mode. It does not help against this form of data collection. Google's position is that this is clear from the incognito start screen as well as the privacy conditions. The users would therefore have consented. N...

The two mega-corporations are alleged to have entered into unfair agreements. In addition, the indictment accuses Google of manipulating header bidding. Nine US states have filed a lawsuit accusing Google of abusing its market power in the online advertising market. The focus is on a series of illegal agreements between parent company Alphabet and Facebook. The two companies control more than half of the market worldwide. In a deal that became public in 2018, the two reportedly agreed to let Facebook's advertisers run ads through Google's ad exchange. The search engine giant had entered into similar partnerships with other market players under the alias "Project Jedi" to maintain its market share. In return, Facebook received preferential treatment in the form of market-distorting exemptions, prosecutors write. The social media company subsequently withdrew from competing software that publishers brought to market to break Google's market power. Literally, the do...

Google and Facebook collect a particularly large amount of data from their users, and this is made particularly clear by an innovation in Apple's App Store. From now on, Apple wants to explain more precisely in its own app store which user data an app can access. For this purpose, there is now a new app privacy section, which is becoming a real data disaster for some large companies. The mandatory information reveals repeatedly and now directly "to the user" how data-hungry Facebook and Co. actually are. Google, on the other hand, has simply not updated its iOS apps at all in the new year. They would like to do so soon, but so far there have been no new updates and therefore the information field "Data linked to you" is still empty. Facebook, on the other hand, has been exemplary , but this makes for a dramatic picture. Kind of everything, right? What Facebook wants to know from us:   A comparison of various popular messengers alone shows that Facebook Messenger...