Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by Teever on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:15AM (#15422693)

Man it would be so terrifying going up against Google in court.

How do you do research? How do you communicate with your lawyer?

They know everything about what you do, when you do it, and who you do it with.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by klodolph on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:18AM (#15422705)

If you sue the phone company, they don't cut off your service or tap your phones.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by Teever on Saturday October 07, 2017 @05:59AM (#15423119)

You would be surprised.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/telus-cuts-subscriber-access-t...

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by flyGuyOnTheSly on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:28AM (#15422743)

Source on the tapping your phones part?

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by drtillberg on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:40AM (#15423718)

Google is embedded in most web services, including this site (as capcha via cloudflare). But, you eventually would learn that non-google services that are mostly as good (except maps), and you would use no-script.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by aneutron on Saturday October 07, 2017 @11:51AM (#15424219)

Not really no. Security wise, they remain one of the most badass actors on the field. I am very sure that my data and passwords are safeguarded. Same can't be said about Yahoo, Bing, or other companies/products.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by blammo999 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:19AM (#15422710)

You do realize that there exists software that isn't made by Google, right? Oh, also books exist.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by blammo999 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:21AM (#15422718)

Like, lawyers have their own collections of research they search through, and because they're not all SV tech bros, they're not above making a phone call or meeting in person in one of their offices (and no, not the open kind).

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by Teever on Saturday October 07, 2017 @06:00AM (#15423123)

With an android phone perhaps? And did they use Google maps to get the address to meet the person?

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by seqastian on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:20AM (#15422712)

Anonymously.

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Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit by goldenkey on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:27AM (#15422740)

There exist other quality search engines like DuckDuckGo. As for anonymity of location: Google would most likely have someone dig through search queries done in the city of the plaintiff/lawyer. VPNs and proxies can help as well as services like Amazon Workspaces. Combining both will mask any trace of your identity pretty well from all but the big 3 government agencies.

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