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.
Exactly. Nobody should be ok with random data being given out “just in case”. This should be illegal and never happen. But it is perfectly acceptable in today’s subpoena world and that’s a scary thing.
The agent could have done the same thing in many different ways to get an ip address. It’s also concerning that agents are still using IP address as a vouch of identity in 2024.
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.
They never stopped. They said they would stop and then they just kept going. Google is not a trustworthy company.
“We are going to stop doing [action]” is megacorp lingo for “We are going to stop telling you that we do [action]”
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You’re having trouble finding unpublished information?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.
Exactly. Nobody should be ok with random data being given out “just in case”. This should be illegal and never happen. But it is perfectly acceptable in today’s subpoena world and that’s a scary thing.
The agent could have done the same thing in many different ways to get an ip address. It’s also concerning that agents are still using IP address as a vouch of identity in 2024.
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Probably so they can start selling it instead