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> Having worked at Apple, I will say I firmly believe they do not sell data. Selling data is so shabby! Why sell when you can just give it away to letter-soup
by wartywhoa23 4mo ago
> Having worked at Apple, I will say I firmly believe they do not sell data.
Selling data is so shabby! Why sell when you can just give it away to letter-soup friends?
- fragmede 4mo agoBecause that's not legal, so they sell it to third party data brokers and it gets resold to someone the TLAs can buy it legally from.
- wartywhoa23 4mo agoIllegal to share data with entities that are themselves law enforcement, and which they are known to be demanding, not just asking to share out of good will?
- yencabulator 4mo agoUS wiretapping operations are not bound by publicly-visible laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A