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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime::(Bloomberg) – Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime.Most Read from BloombergNetanyahu, Under Pressure Over Hostage Deaths, Vows to Press OnMike Johnson May Be the Next House Speaker to Lose His Job‘Underwater’ Car Loans Signal US Consumers Slammed by High RatesUS Navy Shoots Do

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    172·
    11 months ago

    Use GrapheneOS and stop giving power to Google. Google is not a friend of the people for offering “free” services, the user is the product and the companies and the surveillance state are the customer.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Surveillance states demand that Google gives all their data, but corps pay Google for all their data

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      the surveillance state are the customer.

      Except it would seem not, since you know this news.

      • ruplicant@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        why not? the quote is in the present tense - while article claims Google will change policy

        and are you sure this is the only service Google is offering to the surveillance state?