Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history
Google will delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of personal data it stores about users. The company’s “timeline” feature – previously known as Location History – will still work for those who choose to use it, letting them scroll […]
2023: Most searched items on Google in Kenya
Google has revealed the most searched topics and personalities in Kenya in 2023. Among the most searched segments include local prominent personalities, education affairs, loss of prominent persons (deaths), movies and TV shows and sports. In terms of local personalities, politician Millicent Omanga was top of the list while in terms of education, the HEF […]
Google blocks RT, other Russian channels from earning ad dollars
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) on Saturday barred Russia’s state-owned media outlet RT and other channels from receiving money for ads on their websites, apps and YouTube videos, similar to a move by Facebook after the invasion of Ukraine. Citing “extraordinary circumstances,” Google’s YouTube unit said it was “pausing a number of channels’ ability to monetize on […]
List of phone apps Google wants you to delete
Google on Monday, July 5, issued a list of applications that it wants users to delete from their phones saying that they were being used to steal personal data from Facebook. The list of applications that have been downloaded by over 5.8 million people are said to have trojan malware which is usually installed after […]