Googling abortion? Your details aren’t as private as you think

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/abortion-rights-us-google-roe-dobbs

by JeanMarcS • 4 years ago

30 6 4 years ago

Ah, yes ... fear-mongering over what the "red" team might do, while pretending the "blue" team haven't been committing this kind of abuse unchecked for years now.

Those abuses are ignored, or worse, reported as a good thing: https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-google-geofence-warrant-janu...

krolden2• 4 years ago

Yeah let's go to a riot with our google location service devices!

Regardless of what they were doing, these people obviously weren't the brightest to be there in the first place. Not surprised they would think airplane mode could protect them.

salawat• 4 years ago

Yes, they are the stupid ones worthy of ridicule and scorn for taking a device specifically designed to hoover and exfiltrate as much data as possible for monetization and value extraction purposes.

The people who made these systems, trading off people's right to privacy, and implementing them in a way where you can't actually find out how shit works without months of digging through convoluted, constantly changing API's/toolchains of course are beyond reproach.

The tech industry's detachment from any semblance of normalcy or humanity never ceases to amaze.

Googling abortion? Your details aren’t as private as you think

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