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Re:Schools are helping police spy on kids’ social media acti... by ethanbond on Sunday April 24, 2016 @11:09AM (#11559897)
Uhhhhhh where do you think the government is getting that data?
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Re:Schools are helping police spy on kids’ social media acti... by Matt3o12_ on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:26PM (#11560972)
A better question is why are they allowed to get that data?

I don't think google is serving them that data on a silver plate.

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Re:Schools are helping police spy on kids’ social media acti... by ethanbond on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:40PM (#11561016)
Of course they are, once they get a subpoena.

Their systems could be engineered such that it's impossible to comply with such requests. But they're not. The reason they're not is... you guessed it:

> Google and Facebook [being] robotic slaves to advertising revenues

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