Ottobre, 2022

News Showcase is launching in France
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News Showcase is launching in France

Over the past 20 years, we’ve collaborated closely with journalists from around the world to support a sustainable, independent and diverse news industry.

Building on our partnership with French publishers, today we’re announcing the launch of Google News Showcase in France, with more than 65 publishers representing more than 130 publications. These include national, regional and local news outlets like 20 minutes, La Dépêche, L’Equipe, L’Express, Le Figaro, La Provence, Le Monde, Groupe EBRA and Le Parisien.

News Showcase gives participating publishers in France more ways to engage with readers, and directs them to full articles on news publications’ websites. This enables publishers to deepen their relationships with readers – and gives them more direct control of presentation and branding. Our French news partners’ News Showcase panels will begin appearing on Google News on Android, iOS and the web, and in Discover on iOS and Android.

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Some of the participating publishers for News Showcase in France

“News Showcase will offer additional visibility to news brands and will highlight the quality and richness of the content produced by Le Figaro’s editorial teams,” says Marc Feuillée, CEO of daily national newspaper Le Figaro.

“Google News Showcase is an opportunity for us, news publishers, to highlight the depth of our content, in an environment tailored for quality news,” says Jean-Nicolas Baylet, General Manager of regional daily newspaper GroupeDépêche du Midi. “It’s also a showcase of our subscriber-only content that we will leverage to get more digital subscribers.”

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An example of how News Showcase panels will look with some of our partners in France.

“News Showcase allows us to highlight the quality information produced by our 400 journalists to attract a wider audience and engage them to subscribe to Le Parisien,” says Sophie Gourmelen, CEO of the daily newspaper.

Since its launch in October 2020, we’ve signed News Showcase deals with more than 1,800 news publications and have launched the product in 20 countries, including Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Ireland and Italy.

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Another example of how News Showcase panels will look with some of our partners in France.

As part of our licensing agreements with publishers for News Showcase, we’re also paying participating news organizations to give readers access to a limited amount of their paywalled content. This feature means readers can see more articles than they would otherwise be able to, encouraging them to learn more about the publication — and potentially subscribe.

“At L’Express we believe in the essential role of the informed, rational and quality press in distinguishing quality journalism from fake news,” says Diane Lemoine, Deputy Managing Director ofL’Express Group, national weekly newspaper. She adds, “News Showcase is an additional and important channel to contribute to media education and to the dissemination of good information to the public. Moreover, I am convinced that the product will bring new visibility to our content, reaching a more diverse audience, helping to introduce L’Express to new readers and hopefully drive subscriptions.”

“We are delighted to continue our collaboration with Google to bring the best sports information to readers; a partnership that takes into account the high value of the content of L’Equipe and which helps us ensure our audience gets the news they’re looking for,” says Laurent Prud’homme, Managing Director of the Groupl’Equipe, a daily national newspaper devoted to sports.

Our support for the French news industry

The launch of News Showcase in France is the latest in our efforts to support publishers and journalists. For more than 20 years we’ve worked closely with the news industry, helping to accelerate their digital journey through traffic generation (Search, Google News, Discover), ads and subscription products, and by supporting news innovation and digital training through the Google News Initiative. Through News Showcase, our other News products and programs, we’re proud to promote quality journalism and support a thriving and diverse news industry.

20 Ottobre 2022
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How Google is helping to make the Internet of Things more secure

The growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology affects consumers around the world in significant ways. Not only are we becoming more deeply connected through IoT devices, we’re now putting more of our lives and trust in the hands of digital technology. Yet, the IoT industry still lacks a global harmonized way for measuring the security quality of connected products, which means consumers may not have the visibility they need into whether their IoT devices protect their data.

Today, Google participated in a White House strategic discussion on IoT Security Labeling to discuss the future of connected device security and shared additional steps we’re taking to secure more of our IoT products.

IoT security today is in the early stages of standardization. We are encouraged by the US government’s efforts to accelerate that process, and to give people more transparency in the security of the IoT products they use every day. Achieving standardized security best practices and consumer transparency at scale could be a tide that raises all boats – giving consumers the ability to understand the level of security in IoT products, choose accordingly, while driving demand for “healthier” security choices from IoT device manufacturers.

Moving IoT security and transparency forward

Since Google began our “helpful home” IoT device journey over a decade ago, we’ve learned a lot and continue to work to deliver even more helpful and secure connected devices — and the software that supports them — to our users. Today, we are excited to announce additional steps that we’re taking to make connected IoT devices safer for consumers.

  • Google is helping lead industry efforts to create a functional, clear, and harmonized cybersecurity label for IoT devices that can help consumers make better device decisions, in an ongoing dialogue with government leaders in cybersecurity, including at NIST, CISA and the White House.
  • Google is extending its commitment to conduct security assessments to Fitbit devices. Announced last year for Nest and Pixel devices, we validate the security of our devices and publish the results. This gives consumers even more transparency by allowing them to review the results while demonstrating our commitment to developing the strongest security protections for our users across all of our IoT products.

Our unwavering commitment to security

We don’t take these commitments to security and transparency lightly. We see these steps as an opportunity to increase transparency and help improve the cybersecurity baseline for the entire ecosystem. And we’ll continue to encourage the community to leverage the security enhancements we continually make to the operating systems we maintain, the open source libraries and tools, and our first-party products which often act as reference implementations to help our broader ecosystem steadily improve their cybersecurity hygiene.

We’re also committed to partnering with organizations working to advance IoT security. Google welcomes the approach taken by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) to build a harmonized global certification program that addresses the requirements set forth in the major global IoT baselines. We believe a global and harmonized approach will raise the bar on IoT security for both enterprise and consumer devices.

As the IoT market continues to mature and adoption grows, we look forward to working with U.S. policymakers, industry partners, developers and public interest advocates to drive strong, standardized IoT security practices and transparency for everyone.

19 Ottobre 2022