Umbrella8335@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIf you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Googlemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkIf you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Googlemashable.comUmbrella8335@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThats not the issue. Its the same as when feds ask google for location data for everyone near a crime at a given timestamp. Its violating innocent peoples privacy in large swathes. Google stopped giving location data recently. Hope they keep going.
minus-squareTherouxSonfeir@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThey never stopped. They said they would stop and then they just kept going. Google is not a trustworthy company.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago“We are going to stop doing [action]” is megacorp lingo for “We are going to stop telling you that we do [action]”
Thats not the issue.
Its the same as when feds ask google for location data for everyone near a crime at a given timestamp. Its violating innocent peoples privacy in large swathes.
Google stopped giving location data recently. Hope they keep going.
They never stopped. They said they would stop and then they just kept going. Google is not a trustworthy company.
“We are going to stop doing [action]” is megacorp lingo for “We are going to stop telling you that we do [action]”
Don’tbe evil.