Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using. Google has updated the toolbar. The People Nearby feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user s precise location, a researcher said. Read the full article. The Parler social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
Source: https://threatpost.com/google-toolbar-tracks-users-who-disabled-tracking-012610/73434/