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Google Asks FCC For OK To Test 6G Service

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Google is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to hold radio experiments β€œin and near the 6 GHz band,” according to a recent filing with the agency. The firm also said virtual private network (VPN) usage was higher by 34 percent and video bandwidth use was higher by 12 percent.

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Google CEO Pushes Back Against Regulation Talk

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against talk of regulating tech companies, saying that the move could have unintended consequences, according to a report by CNBC. β€œI I worry that if you regulate for the sake of regulating it, it has a lot of unintended consequences,” Pichai said. So we have to balance both.

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Google is Already Worried About Regulating Machine Learning

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Machine learning could be quite influential on cloud services (and FIs), which is why Google’s experiments with it are ongoing, according to Gavan Corr, principal, financial services for Google Cloud. Financial services has been at the forefront of machine learning–a lot of what we call machine learning is really math.

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US Department Of Justice Says Google Is A Monopoly

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against Google, joined by 11 states attorneys general, alleging the tech giant has used its dominant position in the online search market unfairly against competitors. But the issues raised by the lawsuit hint at where regulators and lawmakers will aim to restrain the tech giant β€” perhaps even, down the line, refashion the company itself.

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UK Google Users Will Be Under US, Not EU Privacy Protections

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Google users in the U.K. will no longer have access to European Union data security, instead being moved by the tech giant to American jurisdiction, according to officials, according to Reuters on Wednesday (Feb. Google will require its users in the U.K. Ireland, which hosts the headquarters of Google and other big U.S.

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Google Voice Data Leak Prompts Investigation By EU Watchdog

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The news that Google hired contractors to listen to voice recordings from users has prompted a possible investigation by Irish data privacy regulators, according to a report by Bloomberg. Belgian broadcaster VRT broke the news and Google responded in a blog post about it on Thursday (July 12). Google said that only about 0.2

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Google GDPR Complaint Suggests Personal Data Misuse

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A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint shows that Google may have misused people’s personal data and categorized them in highly sensitive ways, according to reports. Google’s ad technology apparently labels users depending on their internet activity, noted a report in TechCrunch.

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