#Google has quietly started accessing #Gmail users’ private emails and attachments to train its #AI models
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/11/22/gmail-explainer-how-to-stop-google-ai-from-snooping-through-your-emails/
#stalking #surveillance #why
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/11/22/gmail-explainer-how-to-stop-google-ai-from-snooping-through-your-emails/
#stalking #surveillance #why
Breitbart
Gmail Explainer: How to Stop Google AI from Snooping Through Your Emails
Google has quietly started accessing Gmail users' private emails and attachments to train its AI models, requiring manual opt-out to avoid participation. To make the process even trickier, Gmail users have to opt out in two separate places for the change…
#Google's new #AluminiumOS project brings #Android to #PC: Here's what we know
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
Android Authority
Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!
#Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/03/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/
#Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a #Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your #RCS and #SMS texts are no longer private.
As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”
#why
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/03/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/
#Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a #Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your #RCS and #SMS texts are no longer private.
As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”
#why
Forbes
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.
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The Department of #War announced the launch of #Google Cloud's #Gemini for #Government as the first of several frontier #AI capabilities to be housed: “The future of American warfare”
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SOCIAL MEDIA SPIES EXPOSED: PROFILES VANISH AFTER
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
A network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).
Social media is not a neutral global town square, but rather a battleground being silently fought over. Over the past decade, the U.S. national security state has infiltrated major social media platforms, in a successful attempt to manipulate the public debate and influence what the world sees and does not see. This influence operation dwarfs any schemes of which official enemy nations are accused.
#why #privacy #surveillance #CIA #NATO #Google #fb #Meta #tiktok #twitter
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
A network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).
Social media is not a neutral global town square, but rather a battleground being silently fought over. Over the past decade, the U.S. national security state has infiltrated major social media platforms, in a successful attempt to manipulate the public debate and influence what the world sees and does not see. This influence operation dwarfs any schemes of which official enemy nations are accused.
#why #privacy #surveillance #CIA #NATO #Google #fb #Meta #tiktok #twitter
MintPress News
Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report
After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence., Censorship, CIA, Deep State, Facebook, FBI, Google, MintPress News, Social Media, TikTok, Twitter,
#usa #cops #Google #why
FYSA - Legal/Regulatory
4th Amendment / Privacy
On December 16th, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a criminal assault case that individuals do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in certain Google search records when those searches are voluntarily entered into Google and disclosed to a third party. In such cases, investigators may use a reverse keyword search warrant to identify a suspect based on searches of a victim’s name and address. The court’s majority relied on third-party doctrine principles, concluding that by using Google under its terms, users assume the risk that search data may be accessed by law enforcement, a decision that has raised national concerns among privacy advocates because reverse keyword warrants start with search terms rather than suspects and can collect data from multiple unrelated users. Debrief: The case stemmed from a successful investigation where police found that the offender, John Kurtz, used Google to search for the home address of a woman that he later kidnapped and raped. Pennsylvania State Police obtained a search
warrant for a substantial quantity of Google’s records and examined them to link the suspect to the crime. The court determined that citizens using Google to conduct searches do not have an "expectation of privacy in the records generated by those searches" and that uses of such warrants are constitutional.
》Sources: www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-36A-2024oajc%20-%20106611829340009817.pdf
www.abajournal.com/news/article/pa-supreme-court-rules-that-police-can-access-google-searches-without-a-warrant
https://natlawreview.com/article/can-law-enforcement-access-google-search-data-without-warrant-pennsylvania-says-yes
FYSA - Legal/Regulatory
4th Amendment / Privacy
On December 16th, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a criminal assault case that individuals do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in certain Google search records when those searches are voluntarily entered into Google and disclosed to a third party. In such cases, investigators may use a reverse keyword search warrant to identify a suspect based on searches of a victim’s name and address. The court’s majority relied on third-party doctrine principles, concluding that by using Google under its terms, users assume the risk that search data may be accessed by law enforcement, a decision that has raised national concerns among privacy advocates because reverse keyword warrants start with search terms rather than suspects and can collect data from multiple unrelated users. Debrief: The case stemmed from a successful investigation where police found that the offender, John Kurtz, used Google to search for the home address of a woman that he later kidnapped and raped. Pennsylvania State Police obtained a search
warrant for a substantial quantity of Google’s records and examined them to link the suspect to the crime. The court determined that citizens using Google to conduct searches do not have an "expectation of privacy in the records generated by those searches" and that uses of such warrants are constitutional.
》Sources: www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-36A-2024oajc%20-%20106611829340009817.pdf
www.abajournal.com/news/article/pa-supreme-court-rules-that-police-can-access-google-searches-without-a-warrant
https://natlawreview.com/article/can-law-enforcement-access-google-search-data-without-warrant-pennsylvania-says-yes
ABA Journal
Police can access Google searches without warrant, state supreme court rules
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that police investigating a rape did not need a warrant to obtain a person's Google searches, the Record reports.
#Android #Google Play preps upcoming "install without verifying" support
https://www.androidauthority.com/install-without-verifying-3633199/
#apk
https://www.androidauthority.com/install-without-verifying-3633199/
#apk
Android Authority
Here's how Google's getting ready for Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions (Updated)
Ahead of Google's mandatory developer registration for sideloaded apps, the company's getting the Play Store ready.
Environmentalists worry #Google behind bid to control #Oregon town's #water
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php
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SFGATE
Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water
Concerns about Big Tech have emerged in a proposal to transfer Mount Hood land.
🇺🇸 While Google stated that its #voice #assistant would only register people's speech when consumers uttered an activation phrase, such as "Hey Google," the consumers claimed that their devices recorded them even without using such language.
Now Google pays to settle, so it’s true I guess
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#why #Google #wiretap #stalking #surveillance
Now Google pays to settle, so it’s true I guess
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#why #Google #wiretap #stalking #surveillance
Keep #Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that #Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android.
Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans announced last August are still scheduled to take place. We see a battle of PR campaigns and whomever has the last post out remains in the media memory as the truth, and having journalists just copy/paste Google posts serves no one.
But Google said… Said what? That there’s a magical “advanced flow”? Did you see it? Did anyone experience it? When is it scheduled to be released? Was it part of Android 16 QPR2 in December? Of 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 last week? Of Android 17 Beta 1? No? That’s the issue… As time marches on people were left with the impression that everything was done, fixed, Google “wasn’t evil” after all, this time, yay!
While we all have bad memories of “banners” as the dreaded ad delivery medium of the Internet, after FOSDEM we decided that we have to raise the issue back and have everyone, who cares about Android as an open platform, informed that we are running out of time until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices.
Hence, the website and starting today our clients, with the updates of F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, feature a banner that reminds everyone how little time we have and how to voice their concerns to whatever local authority is able to understand the dangers of this path Android is led to.
We are not alone in our fight, IzzyOnDroid added a banner too, more F-Droid clients will add the warning banner soon and other app downloaders, like Obtainium, already have an in-app warning dialogue.
#why
https://keepandroidopen.org
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that #Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android.
Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans announced last August are still scheduled to take place. We see a battle of PR campaigns and whomever has the last post out remains in the media memory as the truth, and having journalists just copy/paste Google posts serves no one.
But Google said… Said what? That there’s a magical “advanced flow”? Did you see it? Did anyone experience it? When is it scheduled to be released? Was it part of Android 16 QPR2 in December? Of 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 last week? Of Android 17 Beta 1? No? That’s the issue… As time marches on people were left with the impression that everything was done, fixed, Google “wasn’t evil” after all, this time, yay!
While we all have bad memories of “banners” as the dreaded ad delivery medium of the Internet, after FOSDEM we decided that we have to raise the issue back and have everyone, who cares about Android as an open platform, informed that we are running out of time until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices.
Hence, the website and starting today our clients, with the updates of F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, feature a banner that reminds everyone how little time we have and how to voice their concerns to whatever local authority is able to understand the dangers of this path Android is led to.
We are not alone in our fight, IzzyOnDroid added a banner too, more F-Droid clients will add the warning banner soon and other app downloaders, like Obtainium, already have an in-app warning dialogue.
#why
keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
Re: Mandatory Developer Registration for #Android App Distribution
Date: February 24, 2026
To: Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, #Google
To: Sergey Brin, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Larry Page, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Vijaya Kaza, General Manager for App & Ecosystem Trust, Google
CC: Regulatory authorities, policymakers, and the Android developer community
We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.
While we do recognize the importance of platform security and user safety, the Android platform already includes multiple security mechanisms that do not require central registration. Forcibly injecting an alien security model that runs counter to Android’s historic open nature threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. We urge Google to withdraw this policy and work with the open-source and security communities on less restrictive alternatives.
Our Concerns
1. Gatekeeping Beyond Google’s Own Store
Android has historically been characterized as an open platform where users and developers can operate independently of Google’s services. The proposed developer registration policy fundamentally alters that relationship by requiring developers who wish to distribute apps through alternative channels — their own websites, third-party app stores, enterprise distribution systems, or direct transfers — to first seek permission from Google through a mandatory verification process, which involves the agreement to Google’s terms and conditions, the payment of a fee, and the uploading of government-issued identification.
This extends Google’s gatekeeping authority beyond its own marketplace into distribution channels where it has no legitimate operational role. Developers who choose not to use Google’s services should not be forced to register with, and submit to the judgement of, Google. Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide also gives Google newfound powers to completely disable any app it wants to, for any reason, for the entire Android ecosystem.
2. Barriers to Entry and Innovation
Mandatory registration creates friction and barriers to entry, particularly for:
Individual developers and small teams with limited resources
Open-source projects that rely on volunteer contributors
Developers in regions with limited access to Google’s registration infrastructure
Privacy-focused developers who avoid surveillance ecosystems
Emergency response and humanitarian organizations requiring rapid deployment
Activists working on internet freedom in countries that unjustly criminalize that work
Developers in countries or regions where Google cannot allow them to sign up due to sanctions
Researchers and academics developing experimental applications
Internal enterprise and government applications never intended for broad public distribution
Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces diversity in the software ecosystem and concentrates power in the hands of large established players who can more easily absorb such compliance costs.
3. Privacy and Surveillance Concerns
Requiring registration with Google creates a comprehensive database of all Android developers, regardless of whether or not they use Google’s services. This raises serious questions about:
What personal information developers must provide
How this information will be stored, secured, and used
Whether this data could be subject to government requests or legal processes
Re: Mandatory Developer Registration for #Android App Distribution
Date: February 24, 2026
To: Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, #Google
To: Sergey Brin, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Larry Page, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Vijaya Kaza, General Manager for App & Ecosystem Trust, Google
CC: Regulatory authorities, policymakers, and the Android developer community
We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.
While we do recognize the importance of platform security and user safety, the Android platform already includes multiple security mechanisms that do not require central registration. Forcibly injecting an alien security model that runs counter to Android’s historic open nature threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. We urge Google to withdraw this policy and work with the open-source and security communities on less restrictive alternatives.
Our Concerns
1. Gatekeeping Beyond Google’s Own Store
Android has historically been characterized as an open platform where users and developers can operate independently of Google’s services. The proposed developer registration policy fundamentally alters that relationship by requiring developers who wish to distribute apps through alternative channels — their own websites, third-party app stores, enterprise distribution systems, or direct transfers — to first seek permission from Google through a mandatory verification process, which involves the agreement to Google’s terms and conditions, the payment of a fee, and the uploading of government-issued identification.
This extends Google’s gatekeeping authority beyond its own marketplace into distribution channels where it has no legitimate operational role. Developers who choose not to use Google’s services should not be forced to register with, and submit to the judgement of, Google. Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide also gives Google newfound powers to completely disable any app it wants to, for any reason, for the entire Android ecosystem.
2. Barriers to Entry and Innovation
Mandatory registration creates friction and barriers to entry, particularly for:
Individual developers and small teams with limited resources
Open-source projects that rely on volunteer contributors
Developers in regions with limited access to Google’s registration infrastructure
Privacy-focused developers who avoid surveillance ecosystems
Emergency response and humanitarian organizations requiring rapid deployment
Activists working on internet freedom in countries that unjustly criminalize that work
Developers in countries or regions where Google cannot allow them to sign up due to sanctions
Researchers and academics developing experimental applications
Internal enterprise and government applications never intended for broad public distribution
Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces diversity in the software ecosystem and concentrates power in the hands of large established players who can more easily absorb such compliance costs.
3. Privacy and Surveillance Concerns
Requiring registration with Google creates a comprehensive database of all Android developers, regardless of whether or not they use Google’s services. This raises serious questions about:
What personal information developers must provide
How this information will be stored, secured, and used
Whether this data could be subject to government requests or legal processes
keepandroidopen.org
An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
Google Deploys Gemini on Dark Web
Google has integrated #Gemini-based #AI agents into its dark web monitoring infrastructure, with the company claiming the system can analyze millions of daily events at 98 percent accuracy. The capability is positioned as an expansion of existing threat intelligence pipelines, applying large language model agents to data sources previously handled by conventional automated tools.
According to the Register report, the deployment scales dark web surveillance capacity without proportional increases in human analyst involvement. This follows a structural pattern across major platform operators: replacing or augmenting tier-one analyst functions with LLM-based triage at ingestion volume that manual workflows cannot sustain.
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@sitreports
#Google #DarkWeb #Tor #Surveillance
Google has integrated #Gemini-based #AI agents into its dark web monitoring infrastructure, with the company claiming the system can analyze millions of daily events at 98 percent accuracy. The capability is positioned as an expansion of existing threat intelligence pipelines, applying large language model agents to data sources previously handled by conventional automated tools.
According to the Register report, the deployment scales dark web surveillance capacity without proportional increases in human analyst involvement. This follows a structural pattern across major platform operators: replacing or augmenting tier-one analyst functions with LLM-based triage at ingestion volume that manual workflows cannot sustain.
🛰️
Open sources - closed narratives@sitreports
#Google #DarkWeb #Tor #Surveillance
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸🇮🇷The proliferation of AI-enabled military technology in the Middle East | ISS org
The genocide in #Gaza, #Palestine was described in the Israeli press as ‘the world’s first AI war’, integrating a number of new artificial intelligence (#AI) systems into military technologies, from new target-identification processes to enhanced weaponry. Since then, the integration of AI into military #technologies has progressed in leaps and bounds, with countries across the region seeking to make AI a part of their military architecture.
Much of this has involved partnerships with commercial entities, from Israeli start-ups to big-tech corporations including #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft. As these entities have shown a tendency to circumvent their self-professed human-rights commitments and due-diligence obligations, greater regulation will be required to protect civilian lives and infrastructure during armed conflict
#Iran #Unit8200 #Amazon #Cisco
The genocide in #Gaza, #Palestine was described in the Israeli press as ‘the world’s first AI war’, integrating a number of new artificial intelligence (#AI) systems into military technologies, from new target-identification processes to enhanced weaponry. Since then, the integration of AI into military #technologies has progressed in leaps and bounds, with countries across the region seeking to make AI a part of their military architecture.
Much of this has involved partnerships with commercial entities, from Israeli start-ups to big-tech corporations including #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft. As these entities have shown a tendency to circumvent their self-professed human-rights commitments and due-diligence obligations, greater regulation will be required to protect civilian lives and infrastructure during armed conflict
#Iran #Unit8200 #Amazon #Cisco