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Study of Google data collection comes amid increased scrutiny over digital privacy
The study for Digital Content Next found much of the data Google collects from Android-enabled devices happens when the user is not interacting with Google products. (Illustration/Pamela Saxon) Google may not know whether you’ve been bad or good but it knows when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. If you use… Read MoreNov. 1, 2018
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Google Research Award goes to engineering team for pinpoint location accuracy using smartphones
A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. Akos Ledeczi The approach being developed by computer engineering associate professor Akos Ledeczi, graduate student Will Hedgecock, research… Read MoreSep. 28, 2012