Umbrella8335If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
Ok, so the headline is a bit clickbait-y. It’s not not everyone who ever watched the video that they are interested in, it’s one person they are trying to track down. Still concerning from a privacy standpoint, but it’s not like they are trying to say that watching the video was itself a crime.
Thats not the issue.
Its the same as when feds ask google for location data for everyone near a crime at a given timestamp. Its violating innocent peoples privacy in large swathes.
Google stopped giving location data recently. Hope they keep going.
tsonfeirThey never stopped. They said they would stop and then they just kept going. Google is not a trustworthy company.
Not doubting you, but do you have a source? Im just having trouble finding what you describe
You’re having trouble finding unpublished information?
I think google’s—and all corporations—history of saying one thing to cool off the press, and then doing another thing is proof enough.
The fact that they ever gave it is proof enough. They’re just trying to save face.
Uriel238 [all pronouns]A long time ago, between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, Google had a business model where it’d keep all the private data and no-one would get to look directly at it. Then some technicians stocked their exes. Then courts required them to cooperate with police warrants. For a while Google advertised they had a legal team to resist all warrants, and make sure they were absolutely positively legal with all the ducks in order, but then they stopped not being evil. So here we are.
That is to say, Google tried, but then it enshittified.
Enshittification is the unfortunate fate of most publicly traded companies.