Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device'
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months agoOnly for things that are on Google’s servers.
Everything is on Google’s servers.
People often act like Google is just handing out user user data to the highest bidder
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I realize it’s worse than that… When did I say otherwise? I even started off the comment by stating that Apple and Google’s privacy features were made for anti-competitive reasons, not to benefit the consumer.
Your type of fear-mongering isn’t really helpful though. It just makes people feel powerless to large corporations and makes people try to address the wrong issues. It’s important to accurately state what they are collecting and how they are using that data. We spent a decade complaining about Google not respecting privacy and selling data and what we got was Google gaining even more power. Because, that wasn’t what Google was doing or their end goal.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
“People” are not powerless. You can I are powerless because “people” don’t care about the dystopian future we’re living in.
And it’s not fear-mongering, it’s the truth. Google does not require warrants.
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What are you talking about? Google does not give law enforcement information without a warrant or valid subpoena.
support.google.com/transparencyreport/…/9713961?h…
You clearly have no idea how any of this works and are fear mongering based on sound bites you may have heard. I work in this field and I know that Google (at least in the US) won’t just hand over data without a valid warrant or subpoena. Now this can be a FISA warrant where the defendant (imo) doesn’t have proper due process rights, but it is still a court order requiring them to comply.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I suppose we’ll just take Google at their word, eh? They would never lie to us? They would never give out thousands of users’ information without a warrant, right?