Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have used this API. Ben has 10 jobs listed on their profile. But increasingly, its success depends on users knowing that their data is secure, and on developers having clear rules of the road.At the beginning of this year, we started an effort called Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps’ data access. For example, if a developer requests access to both calendar entries and Drive documents, you will be able to choose to share one but not the other. We will share more information in the coming days. View Ben Smith’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Our goal is to support a wide range of useful apps, while ensuring that everyone is confident that their data is secure. How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon ValleySundar Pichai, the Google chief executive, testifying last month via videoconference.Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times from 1963 to 1992.The tech executives testifying, via videoconference, last month during a congressional hearing. Instead of seeing all requested permissions in a single screen, apps will have to show you each requested permission, one at a time, within its own dialog box. But some in the news media learned lessons from back then, ones that Silicon Valley chief executives would be wise to reflect on this election season.The biggest one is about false balance, and false symmetry. It’s because sites like The Gateway Pundit are full of falsehoods, and because the president says false things a lot.That’s the messy political reality — not the sort of neat systemic answer that makes engineers comfortable.
We will remove access to contact interaction data from the Android Contacts API within the next few months.In the coming months, we’ll roll out additional controls and update policies across more of our APIs. Underlining this, as part of our Project Strobe audit, we discovered a bug in one of the Google+ People APIs:Users can grant access to their Profile data, and the public Profile information of their friends, to Google+ apps, via the API.The bug meant that apps also had access to Profile fields that were shared with the user, but not marked as public. The American right and left have never been mirror images of each other. By We’ve decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features purpose-built for businesses.
Google Fellow and Vice President of Engineering Published Oct 8, 2018. Stephanie Wong Whenever user data may have been affected, we go beyond our legal requirements and apply several criteria focused on our users in determining whether to provide notice.Our Privacy & Data Protection Office reviewed this issue, looking at the type of data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were any actions a developer or user could take in response. Enterprise customers can set common access rules, and use central controls, for their entire organization. “I would be ashamed if we ever did pass muster with such nitwits.”Mr. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.Our review showed that our Google+ APIs, and the associated controls for consumers, are challenging to develop and maintain. (Perhaps not everything: Mr. Sulzberger, after all, did publish the Pentagon Papers. It’s a tactic the Trump movement has revived and deftly employed against the powerful, befuddled new referees of public debate, Google, Facebook and Twitter.I’ve been thinking about conservatives’ long and persistent campaign to influence the referees since the historian Rick Perlstein emailed me recently to offer me a scoop, if a somewhat dusty one.In combing the archives of The New York Times at the New York Public Library for his new book Mr. Sulzberger quickly assigned his top deputy to push the Paris bureau to look into the issue, prompting a “It is wrong for The Times to submit in gentlemanly fashion to their inquiry in our offices. (The old establishment referees are now barely important enough to target, but they’re still embroiled in an internal debate over whether to try to hold onto a vanishing nonpartisan center. And it is certainly destructive of morale — starting with mine — to know that such people are cordially received upstairs,” Mr. Frankel wrote. By giving developers more explicit rules of the road, and helping users control your data, we can ensure that we keep doing just that.Google has many products and programs to help families create healthy digital habits and help them stay safe online.Let’s stay in touch. So as part of Project Strobe, one of our first priorities was to closely review all the APIs associated with Google+.