Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages

• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not sure whether it could be worse.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would be worse. They would use that access to target people.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Do you think anything is stopping them now? Why do you think these systems were built?

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      • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Profits. Dead people don’t pay.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they already are.

      its been a while since snowden leaked that to us.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, it’s a lot worse. The particular difference is that one of these organizations has the power to disappear you without consequence.

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  • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I know people like to hate on google, but google is actually like 3 companies in a trench coat.

    They do highly valuable open source / open ecosystem work (I will say the chance of you indirectly using a google tool without knowing is over 90% now) and if the American government, a capitalist fascist government no less, gets their hands on it, we’re fucked

    Not all of google is adsense or YouTube.

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hope there’s no Google in my life.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they already have these companies wiretapped since thearly 2000s

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