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> Google is not the problem. Perhaps some changes to their policies is warranted, but a total turnaround? Why? But it is the problem. Google legally collects
by nobodyandproud 4y ago
> Google is not the problem. Perhaps some changes to their policies is warranted, but a total turnaround? Why?
But it is the problem. Google legally collects the data, but that means the information is only one law away from becoming accessible and directly used against individuals.
There are many checks in place—practical, legal, and cultural—to keep law enforcement from collecting such data.
FAANG’s surveillance tech has created a backdoor to circumvent all but the legal checks.
That’s an awful place to be in, especially in the world of parallel construction.
- pessimizer 4y agoGoogle is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register which is the way around privacy law. > Twelve years [after Katz v. United States] the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the "petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company." Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 744 (1979). Since the defendant had disclosed the dialed numbers to the telephone company so they could connect his call, he did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers he dialed. The court did not distinguish between disclosing the numbers to a human operator or just the automatic equipment used by the telephone company.