Googling abortion? Your details aren’t as private as you think

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30 points·JeanMarcS··15 comments

Ah, yes ... fear-mongering over what the "red" team might do, while pretending the "blue" team haven't been committing this kind of abuse unchecked for years now.

Those abuses are ignored, or worse, reported as a good thing: https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-google-geofence-warrant-janu...

Yeah let's go to a riot with our google location service devices!

Regardless of what they were doing, these people obviously weren't the brightest to be there in the first place. Not surprised they would think airplane mode could protect them.

Yes, they are the stupid ones worthy of ridicule and scorn for taking a device specifically designed to hoover and exfiltrate as much data as possible for monetization and value extraction purposes.

The people who made these systems, trading off people's right to privacy, and implementing them in a way where you can't actually find out how shit works without months of digging through convoluted, constantly changing API's/toolchains of course are beyond reproach.

The tech industry's detachment from any semblance of normalcy or humanity never ceases to amaze.

The Dems have found a loophole.

As private companies, big tech can legally suppress speech and censor anything the Dems dont like.

And in return the Dems allow them to retain their monopolies and massively unethical business practices.

I dont see this ending well.

Lol the fact you think its just one political party doing this is laughable.

Lets just say the Dems are getting a much better value for money on this issue...

At least for now anyway.

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