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Where “hands out” means “responds to a legal warrant from the FBI.” I have no love for Google, but even I am not going to blame them for not defying an FBI war
by acheron 4y ago
Where “hands out” means “responds to a legal warrant from the FBI.”
I have no love for Google, but even I am not going to blame them for not defying an FBI warrant.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoRight but using softer, more accurate language like "Google responds to legal warrant" doesn't cause a frenzy of social media anger.
- im3w1l 4y agoThat's ambiguous because the response could be anything including a refusal. I'd prefer "forced to hand over" to succinctly describe the situation.
- ncmncm 4y agoWhat matters is whether they fought it in court, or just folded. If they fought it and lost, they could pledge her legal services. They can trivially afford it, so should.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago> just folded According to https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=... They received 186,126 user data requests in the U.S. and 252,092 globally in 2020.
- hedora 4y agoThey designed their systems to maximize the damage such warrants do to their users.