Google Arabia announced that it was adding new mapping domains for 11 countries across the Middle East/North Africa region, including all six countries in the GCC. Users will be able to add local ...

A cardboard cutout of Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince MBS outside Google’s San Francisco office on June 2. Courtesy of Ekō Google CEO Sundar Pichai is under fire over the tech ...

Dozens of campaign groups are urging Google to abandon a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia, saying the company is at risk of being “complicit in future human rights violations.” But groups ...

RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to establish a new global artificial intelligence (AI) hub near Dammam in the Eastern ...

Activists say that tech firms could become complicit in Saudi surveillance and repression. Firms including Microsoft and Google are creating cloud storage centers in the kingdom. But Saudi Arabia has ...

Parent company Alphabet rejects a civil society-backed shareholder proposal calling on Google to uphold human rights principles. This statement was originally published on smex.org on 22 June 2022.

The Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia hosted a workshop for Google on upscaling the Saudi Tourism Ecosystem. World Tourism Network member Dr. Jens Thraenhart attended the event and provided five key ...

The undersigned human rights and digital rights organizations urge Google to immediately halt its plan to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia until the company can publicly demonstrate ...

In December 2020, Google announced it would build a cloud-computing center in Saudi Arabia. Critics fear that could allow Saudi authorities to more easily access user data. Human rights groups are ...

(Beirut) – Google should immediately halt its decision to establish a new Cloud region in Saudi Arabia until it can clearly outline steps to mitigate adverse human rights abuses, 39 human rights and ...