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When terrorists killed nearly 150 at a high school in Pakistan, the government asked mobile carriers to fingerprint every SIM card owner. Soon, one firm realized its power to collect customer data.

Stories highlighted for June 21, 2023.

Several employees shared a letter with NPR calling on the tech giant to halt its reported work on a search engine project tailored to Chinese censorship demands.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with open source researcher Connor Plunkett, about his report with Bellingcat titled "Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews."

Emma Haruka Iwao, who has been fascinated with the mathematical constant since childhood, set the Guinness World Record for most accurate value of pi.

Family members and victims of the 2015 mass shooting in California had accused the tech companies of knowingly supporting ISIS and helping the group spread its radical beliefs.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, about Google's 25th anniversary, and how the company's past and current challenges bode for its future.

In the latest revelation to raise privacy concerns, the Silicon Valley giants offered adults and teens gift cards for installing apps that would let the companies collect data on their smartphones.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Paresh Dave of Wired about the Israeli government buying Google ads that are spreading false information about the UN's relief agency in Gaza.

Google Earth changed the face of digital maps in 2005, giving users the ability to look at satellite and other imagery almost anywhere across the world.