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Read the blog post. "Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period"
by packetslave 13y ago
Read the blog post. "Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period"
- ceejayoz 13y agoWhich is still pretty flexible language. "Oh, it's not open-ended access, it's limited to the conditions in the authorization..." The Verizon order was limited to 3 months, for example, which is hardly open-ended... except that it presumably got re-upped every three months.
- packetslave 13y agoRead the NEXT SENTENCE! "Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records." AND THE TWO AFTER THAT: "We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false."
- hga 13y ago"NEXT SENTENCE": I don't think they're a telco with millions of users, Goggle Voice is pretty small, right? The two after that look like a pretty good denial, though.
- washedup 13y agoIt is very possible that Google is lying.
- Kylekramer 13y agoOf course it is, but in this conversation that is moving the goalposts. And if we had to address every possibility, very little progress would ever be made in any discussion.
- snowwrestler 13y agoThen why bother parsing their language or even reading their blog posts?
- Thrymr 13y agoHe also says: "Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received... We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false."
- unreal37 13y agoNo, its pretty clearly written to me. Larry Page is genuinely surprised that this program thinks it has access to Google data on demand.