Editing Google (section)

=== 2019 ===
In 2019, a hub for critics of Google dedicated to abstaining from using Google products coalesced in the [[Reddit]] online [[subreddit|community]] /r/degoogle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 23, 2019 |title=Thousands of Reddit users are trying to delete Google from their lives, but they're finding it impossible because Google is everywhere |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-reddit-de-google-community-2019-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325123426/https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-reddit-de-google-community-2019-3/ |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |access-date=April 24, 2019 |website=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref> The [[DeGoogle]] [[grassroots campaign]] continues to grow as privacy activists highlight information about Google products, and the associated incursion on personal privacy rights by the company.

In April 2019, former Mozilla executive Jonathan Nightingale accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging the Firefox browser over the past decade in order to boost adoption of Google Chrome.<ref name="firefox" />

In November 2019, the Office for Civil Rights of the United States [[Department of Health and Human Services]] began investigation into [[Project Nightingale]], to assess whether the "mass collection of individuals' medical records" complied with [[Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act|HIPAA]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Copeland |first=Rob |date=November 12, 2019 |title=Google's 'Project Nightingale' Triggers Federal Inquiry |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-googles-project-nightingale-a-health-data-gold-mine-of-50-million-patients-11573571867 |access-date=November 18, 2019}}</ref> According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Google secretively began the project in 2018, with [[St. Louis]]-based [[healthcare]] company [[Ascension (company)|Ascension]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Copeland |first=Rob |date=November 11, 2019 |title=Google's 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790 |access-date=November 17, 2019}}</ref>