This Week in Google 407

Government's role in online privacy. Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet trends report. Android creator Andy Rubin's new Essential phone. The true meaning of "covfefe." Does Netflix care about Net Neutrality? Chipotle hacked. Google's expensive gender pay gap.

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Links

• What’s a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation
• Hillary Clinton interviewed at Recode
• Google Abandons Its Nik Collection of Popular Photo Editing Software
• Now open for pre-orders: Essential Products - will you?
• Ceramic and titanium but no headphone jack
• Essential Home is a proactive home assistant that focuses on privacy (but still watches you)
• Mossberg's final column
• New ‘Judy’ malware on Android may have infected 36 million devices
• Google won’t fix Android ‘contentjacking’ flaw for months
• Nest Cam IQ
• NETATMO Welcome
• Canary
• Arlo by Netgear
• Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE) project
• This website is a resource to educate the public about the main elements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Stephen Fry: The Way Ahead
• Netflix CEO says net neutrality is ‘not our primary battle’
• Use the “Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator” to experience an Internet without net neutrality
• When govts don't know what you're reading, they're less likely to censor it.
• Chipotle says ‘most’ of its restaurants were infected with credit card stealing malware
• Google Adds ‘Personal’ Tab to Search Results
• Google can't spare 113 seconds of revenue to compile data on its gender pay gap
• Google says its machine learning tech now blocks 99.9% of Gmail spam and phishing messages
• Facebook launches Google AMP support to Instant Article tools to increase adoption
• Uber and Lyft to relaunch services in Austin on Monday, after Texas lawmakers passed a bill overriding local regulations
• Austin Duck Adventures
• Uber board reportedly receiving Eric Holder’s report this week
• Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute
• Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis
• CrowdJustice, a Kickstarter for court cases, expands from the UK to the US
• The First Text Adventure Game Ever Is Finally Open Source
• Elon Musk threatens to leave White House councils over Paris deal
• Connected Rights newsletter
• 20 spots left for Indieweb summit
• Robovision (or is it)
• Man fined $4,000 for 'liking' defamatory posts on Facebook
• America's most misspelled words