Re:U.S. govt, tech industry discuss using location data to c...
by sneak on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:48AM
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> A more hopeful interpretation. This can be a tool for good. It's not necessary for the state to have access. We already have access.
The state has had realtime, direct access to the data without
a warrant or meaningful oversight on a query-by-query basis since the 14th of January, 2009, when Google joined the PRISM collection program.
It would be a very simple matter to expand that access to send wider selections of data. It may already have the capability to perform such queries.
The state has had realtime, direct access to the data without a warrant or meaningful oversight on a query-by-query basis since the 14th of January, 2009, when Google joined the PRISM collection program.
It would be a very simple matter to expand that access to send wider selections of data. It may already have the capability to perform such queries.