#Google’s life sciences arm, through its Debug Project, has filed for EPA approval to release millions of lab-bred male #mosquitoes.

#why #safe #effective #ot

#Elon #Musk's #SpaceX signs $920,000,000 per month deal with #Google to provide #AI computing power.

@WatcherGuru

Google’s New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

#Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest #reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.

That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.

Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.

Google has lined up the promises you would expect. The company says the footage is deleted once verification finishes, no audio is recorded, and the video is never tied to your identity. Its documentation adds that nothing goes to third parties and the data serves security alone, then points to the Google Privacy Policy for how everything is used and stored, a policy elastic enough to cover almost anything.

For now the feature seems optional. People who cannot perform the gestures still get the older puzzles, with Google saying reCAPTCHA “continues to provide visual and audio challenges” while it develops alternatives.

However, we all know that optional today is rarely optional forever and the older challenges survive partly because the gesture check is still being tested.

The reassurances rest on trust and Google has spent years giving people reasons to hold it back. This is a company whose business runs on gathering and monetizing personal data, now asking to switch on your camera and read your hand.

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

#why

#Google introduces new ‘selfie video’ sign-in method

https://9to5google.com/2026/07/23/google-account-selfie-video/

#why

And in this thread they explain how goolag are violating the GPL and making it harder and slower to get the source code for android in pixels.

They say this won't happen with their Motorola graphene OS devices starting in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

#google #Android #GPL #pixel #sources #why

#Google Starts Asking for Developers' Papers on September 30
https://ift.tt/9qUI0cL - FOLLOW: @reclaimthenet
#why

"Google is throwing away tens of millions of dollars of hardware revenue over a couple of years and hundreds of millions over the longer term. They simply have a lot of very incompetent people in management shooting themselves in the foot. They're also doing many anti-competitive things which are clearly illegal. Android gained the market share it did because it's an open platform and open source. Google is not actually legally allowed to pull the rug."

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117140280321362204

pixel11 harder to port...
don't hold your breath waiting for GOS on it..

#why #google #Motorola #android #aosp #gos #grapheneos

🍿 Google Secretly Installed a New App on Your Phone Again — Check It Now!

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhDWMrAYw2g

#debloat #Android #Google #how #why

How to block it from installing

Same way as the safetycore blocker.

https://github.com/daboynb/developer-verifier-placeholder

And if you didn't have it for safetycore, it can be found here:
https://github.com/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder

If you have any issues theres a issue tracker with some that had issues on some brands

https://github.com/daboynb/developer-verifier-placeholder/issues/1

@NoGoolag @LibreWare
#debloat #Android #Google #how #why

If you're having trouble on android 17, try this

🍿 Can't Remove Bloatware in Android 17 with ADB? Try This Instead

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJs9vuSnqc

#debloat #Android #Google #how #why #adb

Tldr don't install #chrome

weights.bin (4GB), a malicious file by Google on web browsers

#Google #bloatware #spyware #ai #why

#GrapheneOS: We're unable to complete the port [of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series] due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears #Google cut an important security feature to save money.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117179231167297908

#Google #Pixel 11 doesn't meet #GrapheneOS requirements and may not be supported

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards-and-may-be-skipped

#GrapheneOS:

#Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. [Thread]

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576

#aosp #Google #why

Google is rolling out age verification in Canada right NOW!

Not next year, it’s not “under review”, it’s happening now.

Jeanette Patell of Google Canada just announced age assurance as part of “online safety for Canadian families.”

Google will use machine learning on data it already has: your searches, YouTube watch history, and years of patterns tied to your account.

Then it guesses if you’re over or under 18.

When the machine is conveniently wrong it will brand a grown adult as a minor.

The “fix” is to hand over a government ID or take a selfie.

If you refuse, they will treat you like a child: bedtime nags on YouTube, throttled viewing, blocked adult-restricted apps on Google Play, and more restrictions inside the services they already built on your data.

This is Big Brother watching you and forcing you to prove who you are when their “guess” is conveniently wrong.

Do NOT comply.
Do NOT upload the ID.
Do NOT give them the selfie.

Opt out of biometrics every time and starve the system before it’s too late!

#Google #why #Canada

2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset

How much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? Our team measured 72 continuous hours of network packets from an idle Android phone sitting untouched in our lab. Here is our raw dataset, our test setup, and what it means for your privacy.

https://www.praveentechworld.com/research/degoogle-telemetry-2026

#Google #why #Android #gapps #stalking #tracking #location #surveillance

Breaking Up with #Google Play: Why #Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/

Comments

#why #android

#Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program

Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17491198/google-oss-vrp-product-reports-closed

#why #opensource

Tristan Harris worked at Google before devoting his life to saving humanity from AI. If half of what he says is true, we need to drop everything and fix this.

Chapters:
0:00 Is AI Doomerism a Psyop?
6:48 Is Technology Accelerating Too Fast?
9:09 The True Incentives of Social Media Companies
18:22 Harris’s Warning to Google and Their Response
27:06 The Lives Lost to Social Media
32:15 Harris's Role in The Social Dilemma
34:11 Is the AI Race With China a Real Concern?
49:07 The Oncoming Violent Revolution
55:43 Transhumanism and the God-Complex of Tech Oligarchs
1:00:17 Could AI Hack Into the World’s Nuclear Programs?
1:11:06 The Hugging Face Incident
1:21:13 Can Cryptocurrency Exist Alongside AI?
1:25:20 Is AI Alive?
1:40:45 The Dangers of AI Psychosis
1:48:29 The New Religious Cult of AI
1:50:21 Are Lawmakers Doing Anything About This?
1:57:11 Will Al and Data Centers Impact the Midterms?

Tristan is Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. He regularly briefs heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world through mainstream media. Tristan has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change. In 2020, Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. The film unveiled how social media is dangerously reprogramming our brains and human civilization. It reached over 100 million people in 190 countries across 30 languages. As a co-host of the top-rated technology podcast, Your Undivided Attention, he explores the drivers behind social media’s race for attention, its destabilization of society, and potential solutions. Learn more about Tristan’s work and get involved at the Center for Humane Technology: https://www.humanetech.com/

#TuckerCarlson #TristanHarris #AI #SamAltman #Google #DataCenters #DonaldTrump #cult #religion #China #whistleblower #exposed #news #podcast #politics