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Feds Order Google to Hand Over a Load of Innocent Americans' Locations
- xfitm3 8y agoThis is disturbing. What ever happened to good old fashioned police work?
- ivraatiems 8y agoIt was always this creepy. It just didn't have the means to do so at scale until now.
- 88j88 8y agoSo, now the criminals will just turn off their phones and everyone _else_ will become a suspect
- bfuller 8y agoThis is what happens when you technologically elect a surveillance apparatus.
- fallingfrog 8y agoThey can do it retroactively too, which means effectively they're already monitoring the location of every American citizen as well as tapping all our phones. The stasi could only dream of such control..
- mikestew 8y agoInnocent, guilty, what I want to know is how the government can turn corporations into their personal database service. It's one thing to pop a tape out of the CCTV deck, quite another to tell a company, "go out of your way to run this query. Don't have one pre-canned? Write one." Same with telling Apple to write phone-cracking software: compelled speech? In summary, what's to keep Google from telling them, "go do your own footwork."?
- acct1771 8y agoIf you're looking for the real answer: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
- dickinson99 8y agoWhy don't they just go to the carriers? They already track everyones location.