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A comment on Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search. Parent comment

Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by throwaway2048 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:16PM (#21775922)
A person doesn't need a globally completely consistent set of priorities to accomplish anything.

This smacks of the same stupid arguments that you cant possibly not like huge amounts of corporate money in politics if you dare purchase anything from a corporation.

Attitudes like this ensure that nothing changes, ever.

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by vkou on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:00PM (#21776407)
No, it doesn't, because the argument you're presenting is a convoluted sequence of causes and effects, that are all quite, well, arguable.

The comparison I'm presenting is trivial. OP has issue with third party collection of their records, and is dumping smartphones. I point out that this will accomplish nothing meaningful in reducing the global third party collection of their records - especially if they switch to a dumbphone.

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