Google recently announced the end of its policy of scanning user emails for targeted advertising purposes — a controversial practice that riled privacy advocates and spurred legal challenges. Gmail is ...

If you're an iPhone user, you probably didn't know that Google Drive has a fairly usable, built-in document scanning feature. Now, the feature's got even better. According to Google, the scanner now ...

Scanning documents on Android phones typically requires specific apps. However, if you use the Files by Google app on your device, you can now scan documents right within the app. In addition, you can ...

Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google is pushing back hard on claims that Gmail messages are being scooped up to train its newest artificial intelligence systems, insisting that its consumer email data is not feeding products like ...

Google recently cancelled what it called a “field research” program which offered various subjects in American cities $5 in gift card form to scan their face. The Google face scanning was the subject ...

Google will no longer scan the email messages of students who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the controversial Gmail advertising practice. Apps for ...

On July 23, Google promised with great fanfare that it would stop scanning consumers’ Gmail messages to serve targeted, contextually aware ads. The announcement—which put Gmail in line with competing ...

Today’s Open Source Friday Focus is on Google’s Skipfish web application vulnerability scanner. Google recently released Skipfish to combat one of the biggest problems in information security today, ...

One of Google’s most controversial Gmail features is finally going away for regular consumers. The company announced today that, sometime later in 2017, it will stop scanning the content of emails ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation’s largest university libraries so the material can indexed in ...

Google cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a “fair use” under copyright law. The arguments, set ...