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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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Apple and Google are both guilty of this. Frankly, however, neither of them are particularly “guilty”, as
    
    Both Apple and Google were legally obligated not do disclose this practice until recently. It was revealed by Apple as soon as this embargo was lifted.
    
    I’m not sure what more they could have done in that situation. Did you expect them to break the (very fucked up) law just to alert the public? Can Signal no longer claim to be privacy-focused if the government forces them to log a suspect’s password?
    
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    mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yall need to read the “a bit” part of that sentence too.
    
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  - misanthropy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, apple pushes “privacy” from companies that are not apple. They collect just as much data as the googs.
    
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    Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well that’s an extreme exaggeration.
    
    They do collect data, but a drop in the bucket to what Google collects lol.
    
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- lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Circumstantial evidence is all evidence except witness testimony.
  
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