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Under US law, you have no expectation to privacy for data that you give to a third party (in this case Google). I think you hit the nail on the head here, there
by henryfjordan 7y ago
Under US law, you have no expectation to privacy for data that you give to a third party (in this case Google). I think you hit the nail on the head here, there's not much legal difference between Google and a nosy neighbor other than scale.
- iamthirsty 7y agoAnd what exact US law would that be?
- wnoise 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
- abandonliberty 7y agoThat's exactly the point: our laws come from a time when scale was sufficiently restrictive. What's possible now was unimaginable when those laws were created.
- harumph 7y agoIsn't it also true that a huge % of people don't realize or understand what data they're giving away, because the specifics have never been articulated by the people selling the information? It seems to always be buried in the fine print. Which no one really ever reads. So, most of the public are party to a contract they don't understand nor really ever truly agreed to. How is any of this in any way acceptable? How is such a contract even remotely valid?