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> and I bet Verizon and AT&T are much more cooperative than Google and Apple with blanket requests. I'm always confused by statements like this. What makes you
by mkhpalm 7y ago
> and I bet Verizon and AT&T are much more cooperative than Google and Apple with blanket requests.
I'm always confused by statements like this. What makes you think Google and Apple are any different in willingness than Verizon and AT&T? Or what makes anybody think any of them even have a choice turning over data on their users?
What do people think other people do when some law enforcement agencies show up on their doorsteps with warrants?
- rriepe 7y agoTech companies are inherently better at public relations because they're closer to the consumer. Plenty of people think tech companies are just somehow different when it comes to corporate morality.
- mehrdada 7y agoBecause their business models and strategic positioning are different? If you are already packaging and selling a database during the course of your day to day business as carriers and credit card companies do, are part of an oligopoly leaving customers no choice, you don’t lose much by disclosing everything indiscriminately to law enforcement. If you peddle privacy in your ads and have a worldwide audience as opposed to US-only, you may have some interest in actually bothering to check a warrant for basic validity at very least, for example (even if it is just for show and marketing; this argument does not presume any sort of moral superiority, although I do personally believe that companies are not all created equal on that dimension either). Also, empirically, I trust Apple and Google to keep data more secure from hackers than AT&T. (I was also careful to use “blanket” requests as opposed to warrant in my original post)