Collected Data
"Many people assumed that the law would prevent Google from collecting data on his daughter for advertising purposes. But the truth is more complicated."
"The CCFC claims Google is engaged in "harmful, unethical, and irresponsible practices" that target the youngest children."
The YouTube Kids App is supposed to be a safe zone for children under age 12, but the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) found both product placement in videos and inappropriate ads.
"Far from being a safe place for kids to explore, YouTube Kids is awash with food and beverage marketing that you won't find on other media platforms for young children," said CCFC's Josh Golin in a news release.
YouTube Kids app under fire for marketing junk food to children
"What, no youtube?"
Rankings calculated by total takedowns by Google, based on requests by content owners and/or their agents. Infringing sites and urls published by Google as part of its Transparency Report, which lists all takedown requests (and compliance to those requests), as well as the requesting companies and organizations.
Noticeably missing from the list; Youtube.
"There is something we can do about it and we can do it right now. Just tell them you’re tired of being a useful idiot."
Beyonce released “Die With You” on Tidal as an exclusive. Everyone at YouTube knows that it was intended to be an exclusive just like everyone at YouTube knows that YouTube could keep the track from being uploaded to YouTube if YouTube wanted to do that.
YouTube has worked hard at getting the world to accept the concept of “user generated content” as some kind of great cultural event–even, when like “Die With You”, there isn’t anything particularly “user generated” about it, unless you call a one-to-one rip of Beyonce’s track that was distributed in clear violation of Beyonce’s rights “user generated”.
The Great Disappointment: Tidal Highlights YouTube’s Moral Hazard for All the World to See
"As a consumer, you should have the right to know who is trying to persuade you,"
According to the consumer groups' letter, the videos mingle commercial and entertainment content in ways that wouldn't be allowed on television. Search for My Little Pony, for example, and the first several options are lengthy advertisements for My Little Pony Play-Doh and toy kitchen sets, including one Play-Doh segment stretching 19 minutes.
YouTube Kids app stuffed with deceptive advertising, say consumer advocates
Next, Google will try to sell kids illegal drugs.
"The company that has made a fortune on searches doesn’t want to be searched."
And as a society, we’re allowing Google to lower the bar on acceptable business standards. The company argues that holding them to a standard of decency is somehow a threat to “Internet freedom.” Look, I’ve been sued about lyrics in my music. I’m all for freedom of speech. Selling drugs to kids is NOT freedom of speech. Showing citizens how to skirt doctors to get pharmaceuticals is not a right guaranteed in the Constitution. It isn’t some unfortunate consequence of progress that these videos slip past Google. They know what’s there and they know people are watching – and the ads are being seen.
Searching for answers from Google about Google
"The search giant also is serving ads based on piracy-related search terms."
In addition, Google said it recently enhanced "autocomplete" and "related search" functions to prevent terms "closely associated with piracy" from appearing in those results, and that it has introduced new advertising products to further promote authorized sources of content in search results.
"While relatively few users search in this way compared to root queries like 'expendables,' we are happy that these new ad formats are driving traffic to legitimate sources of media," Google said.
Google thwarts piracy with search algorithm changes
New advertising products...
"It's about building an audience that is loyal," she said. "And if you want to be loyal to them, you can't just sell them everything. They're not stupid."
"The potential for a YouTube creator to become a global star has increased, and that opens up all sorts of new doors," said Jamie Byrne, YouTube's director of content commercialization. But "the core of their popularity, and the core of their fan base, is really driven by their activities on YouTube."
YouTube's biggest stars are cashing in offline
"If Google really is acting in good faith, as it claims to be, it should only be de-linking content that is very clearly not in the public interest."
If Google is trying to prove that the system is unworkable, then it’s succeeding – only the system it’s apparently operating in isn’t the system the CJEU described. It’s a straw man.
Why is Google really removing links to news articles in Europe?
Google is acting like a spoiled infant.
Google starts censoring search results in Europe due to privacy ruling
As soon as the ruling happened, Google started receiving requests from pedophiles and disgraced politicians asking for links to articles about them to be removed.
Google starts censoring search results in Europe due to privacy ruling
For another way of looking at it...
Life Liberty And Pursued By Google
Google TV returned for a… oh, never mind. Nobody cared. Next!
Since 2010, Google has tried easing itself into the living room with various boxes, dongles and gadgets that put its software and services on your TV. Each attempt has been a little different and usually a little better, but there has yet to be a critically acclaimed box-office hit. Perhaps the previously reported Android TV, formally introduced today at Google I/O, will be different.
Android TV: Google Aims for the Living Room … Again
Perhaps.
Google did not have concrete hardware plans to bring Android TV to the world, but stated it's working with a number of manufacturers on both streaming devices and TVs.
While the platform is still a theoretical implementation than a concrete product, Google is flexible about whether it can be used for a smart TV, a set top box, or another format entirely.
Google makes a comeback in the living room with Android TV
So, basically, they announced a Demo. Nice “Moon Shot” Google.
"Google’s vision is clear, their disparate businesses all possessing a common idea: to connect everything and everyone."
Indeed, while credit agencies must — by law — wipe clear their data on us from many years ago, the far larger, far richer, far more encircling Google faces no such restrictions.
Life Liberty And Pursued By Google
"It’s pricing 101: if supply outstrips demand, the price drops"
I just noted that Facebook and Google, in order to function, must be free (and thus ad-supported) in order to offer meaningful social networking and better search, respectively. The biggest beneficiaries, though, are the people who actually use Facebook and Google. Facebook doesn’t seem to get much respect in tech circles, but the truth is it has had and continues to have a more meaningful impact on normal consumers lives than any of the various companies and products that actually get tech people excited. - Ben Thompson
PRIVACY IS DEAD
Artists who don’t sign with YouTube’s new subscription service to be blocked
90 percent of the music industry have agreed to the contract terms that include provisions for the subscription service. But YouTube will apparently not let the 10 percent that have resisted carry on as ad-supported-only videos, and Kyncl told FT that the blocking will begin in a matter of days.
Don’t Be Evil.
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