Jan 29th 2020
This Week in Google 544
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Your Data is Shared
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
This Week's Stories:
- Google I/O coming May 12th
- Why Facebook's 'Off-Facebook Activity' privacy tool isn't transparent enough
- Is Amazon sending people stuff before they ask for it?
- Are you being remotely controlled?
- Do Google's ads look like search results?
- Google's tenth attempt at unified messaging (and second Slack clone) will surely succeed
- iRobot CEO: privacy doesn't sell
- An open letter to Google on privacy and crapware
- Google wants to make you cry at the Superbowl
- What your Ring doorbell really shares
- Avast anti-virus sold all your data to Home Depot
- Google wants to charge the cops for your data
- US Interior Department makes Chinese drones illegal
- Nunavut tracks ransomware bitcoins
- UK will not implement EU meme ban
- Ben Smith moves from Buzzfeed News to the New York Times
- Tech in 2020 slide deck: Benedict Evans lays out the trends
- Samsung's next folding phone leaks
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Links
- TWiT 2020 Audience Survey
- Google I/O 2020 will kick off on May 12th - The Verge
- Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat
- Google’s ads just look like search results now - The Verge
- Google SuperBowl ad; hankies out
- Google Black History Month commercial
- Off-Facebook Activity is a Welcome but Incomplete Move | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Facebook Enables Confusing 'Off-Facebook Activity' Privacy Tool
- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data - VICE
- US Interior Department introduces a no-fly rule for Chinese drones or those made with Chinese parts
- Moneyness: What happens when a 96 bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex?
- UK won't adopt new EU copyright law and the dreaded Article 13 | Trusted Reviews
- Google Drive can now be used as a Progressive Web App
- Google is killing Google One Today, gives supporters only a week's notice
- Google Camera v7.3 prepares for 24 fps video, Pixel 4a codenames, and automatic Do Not Disturb mode (APK Teardown)
- Google rolls out new “Media View” for Nest Hub smart displays
- Action advised: App Maker shutting down - G Suite Admin Help
- bradfitz - Leaving Google
- Google Translate is getting a transcribe mode for lectures, speeches
- Add to playlist button appears in Google Podcasts for some, but it doesn't work yet
- Google is making a short-form video sharing app for DIY tutorials
- Nest testing feature to report HVAC issues and schedule a repair
- Massive Leak Reveals Pretty Much Everything About Samsung's Next Foldable Phone
- Benedict Evans' annual presentation: Meeker but strategic
- BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith to join New York Times as media columnist
- You Are Now Remotely Controlled
- Murdoch launches Knewz promising balance; Jarvis has complains
- Roam Research
- Product Hunt Has Released YourStack, A Social Network Where People Talk About Products
- Have an iPhone 11 or 10s? Get Creative with Double Take
- Baby Drifting
- Baby Dolls Grow Up: American Girl stop-motion
- Mackenzie Bezos dumped $370m of her AMZN; 1% of her holding
- Times New Roman
- Paris Musee 100k free-use images
- Oxford comma
- Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West