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This is commercial tracking data, not COVID app data. It's been well known for a long time that plenty of phone apps sell data to aggregators, it's not a conspi
by maxerickson 5y ago
This is commercial tracking data, not COVID app data. It's been well known for a long time that plenty of phone apps sell data to aggregators, it's not a conspiracy theory.
That commercial data isn't something any court would call a violation of the 4th amendment.
- panny 5y agoTo me that sounds a bit like >It's not rape if you consent to sex but I slip off the condom when you aren't looking. If the government is explicitly not allowed to collect this data, then buying it is simply a different form of data collection.
- maxerickson 5y agoRead closer. I didn't express a personal opinion on the topic, I expressed an opinion/assessment about how courts handle the topic. Like you can have a legal theory about something and it doesn't mean shit if courts don't accept it.
- panny 5y ago>I expressed an opinion/assessment about how courts handle the topic. Sure, but the courts are the government too. Which boils down to >The government has decided the government should have more power over you. or maybe >I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.
- maxerickson 5y agoCan the government read the New York Times? What if it mentions where someone was at a particular time? Doing the same thing for millions of people is of course different, but not for the reason you are expressing.