Documenting my transition away from Google’s search engine
November 9, 2025Discussing all the reasons to boycott Google would take an entire article, but the tech giant’s involvement in violent state surveillance projects is reason enough. Project Nimbus is their artificial intelligence project that provides the Israeli government with surveillance data on Palestinians as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. More recently, Google Cloud invested billions in partnering with war contractor Lockheed Martin to provide AI surveillance along the Mexico-US border wall. With bothersome “AI Overviews” now embedded in search results, the depletion of fossil fuels is increasing exponentially, and so is environmental racism — a systemic issue where racialized…
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Bill C-18 needs to go
September 24, 2023Canada’s Bill C-18 was tabled in the House of Commons on June 21, 2022. Since then, those living in Canada have had their access to Canadian media restricted by Meta and Google. Obviously, this is an issue for Canadians trying…
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A Google Doc love story
June 22, 2022Once upon a group project, two unsuspecting psychology students were placed in a group, encountered the usual group tension and, surprisingly, love. Twas not a meeting that involved bumping into each other (cutely) in the maze we SFU’ers call the…
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World News Beat
July 23, 2018Google fined record amount The European Union (EU) has imposed its largest ever fine (4.34 billion euro), on Google. According to the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, “Google engaged in illegal practices to cement its dominant market position…
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World News Beat
July 7, 2017UKRAINE – Another massive cyberattack spreads worldwide Thousands of organizations reported attacks from a new computer virus last week, disrupting everything from shipping ports to chocolate production. The malicious software began its work in Ukraine, attacking the Chernobyl radiation monitoring…
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