Comment on Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime

otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really. Google us making this change so they have no way to share incidental bystanders location data when its requested/demanded by law enforcement. This change is occuring after the feature made headline news because of how google was cooperating with police to provide this data.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, surprising that for once Apple is the good guy here. There’s a good reason this is a bad idea, and it’s not reallt hard to see why. Circumstantial evidence isn’t evidence of an actual crime for a reason.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apple has been pushing privacy as a selling point, and actually living up to it a bit.

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      • random65837@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, no, not really. They’re more private than Google, but have also never had issues in the past with geofence dragonets, and only because of public backlash stopped the idea of digging through people’s gallerys to accuse everybody of being a pedophile. Yes, out of the box Apple (may) be a little better, but their descicions change with the wind, and at least on Android we have control to stop what Google does in most cases vs no options on the Apple side.

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      • yolo@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        pushing digital privacy as a selling point and living up to it doesn’t add up when you do compromise privacy behind closed doors

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      • misanthropy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, apple pushes “privacy” from companies that are not apple. They collect just as much data as the googs.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Circumstantial evidence is all evidence except witness testimony.

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