This Week in Google 542

This Week's Stories:

•  CES 2020: Tech for Seniors isn't just health tech
•  CES 2020: Health tech
•  CES 2020: Climate Change Fighting Tech
•  CES 2020: Tech firms need to grow up
•  CES 2020: Not everything needs to be smart
•  CES 2020: Fitbits for dogs
•  CES 2020: Dog translator
•  CES 2020: Trash and Treasure at Eureka Park
•  People trust Google more than religious leaders
•  COPPA breaks YouTube. Copyright trolls kill YouTube creators
•  Google will drop 3rd party cookies in 2022
•  Aura Portable Personal Scanner
•  Google will let you record your calls soon
•  Instagram calls Photoshop "Fake News"
•  Facebook still allows anti-vax ads
•  Amazon vs Honey is the tip of the privacy iceberg
•  Twitter will never let you edit your tweets
•  Twitter will let you limit who can reply to your tweets
•  Twitter is thinking about tips

Picks of the Week:

•  Ant's Good Stuff: Patty Mattes photography for an animal shelter
•  Stacey's Thing: Travelling heating pad
•  Jeff's Numbers: Google about to hit trillion-dollar valuation club

 

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Links

• I went to CES and had 4 epiphanies!
• Google plans to drop Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022
• Google caller APK reveals call recording in the works
• More Americans trust Google, Amazon than teachers, police officers, Donald Trump, the U.S. government or the news media
• YouTube COPPA changes result in videos with violence, gore, and strong language being labeled “made for kids”
• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
• All of Frogpants' channels kicked off YouTube
• Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution: No more annual challenges
• Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads
• Facebook Is Running Anti-Vax Ads, Despite Its Ban on Vaccine Misinformation
• Instagram’s decision to hide photoshopped images is a disservice to art
• visualgrams
• Between the World and Me
• Amazon suspiciously says browser extension Honey is a security risk, now that PayPal owns it
• Twitter says a "conversation participants" compose screen tool is coming in 2020
• In a Q&A, Jack Dorsey discusses Twitter's thinking around an edit button
• Twitter considers tipping
• In defense of Twitter
• Jarvis: In defense of targeting
• More Jeff ego: in a Munk Debate defending social media
• Mike Bloomberg's weird Twitter on debate night
• Aura Portable Personal Scanner
• Patty Mattes photography for animal shelter
• Traveling heating pad
• Google about to hit trillion-dollar valuation club
• Zuckerberg 5th richest man in the world
• Ev's VC fund raises a new round
• Dorsey eats one meal a day
• Bezos follows one person on Twitter and she doesn't follow him back