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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by wpdev_63 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @02:16PM (#18321971)
The problem with #3 is that they _already_ doing that with the fisa courts and it's a shit show. In our current system, they rubber stamp every warrant that is presented to the court with no oversight[0].

[0]:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/president-obama-called...

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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by aroberge on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:59PM (#18322779)
Toronto, the city mentioned in the article, is in Canada. "Fisa courts" are a U.S. entity which has nothing to do with what is being done in Canada.
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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by travelbuffoon on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:40PM (#18323024)
Until the data gets sent to US servers.
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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by amphibian87 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:44PM (#18323941)
^This. "5 eyes" Canada, US, UK, NZ, and AUS
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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by 8note on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:54AM (#18325344)
and so even if the fisa courts said no, the data would still arrive
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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by rickycook on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:09PM (#18324475)
well then ignore fisa courts because the US just does whatever the hell it wants with non-US citizens. that makes the point even more prescient
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Re:Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy night... by api on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:28PM (#18324558)
Who wants to be the judge who didn't rubber stamp that one warrant that if executed would have stopped the next 9/11? There is no bureaucratic incentive to do anything but approve everything.
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