Re:Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, d...
by firebaze on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:50PM
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Does it give far-left users' data to LE as well?
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Re:Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, d...
by iron0013 on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:02PM
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Presumably only if they make violent and terroristic threats like the right-wing subjects of the article did. The valence of their political beliefs is irrelevant, making the headline highly misleading.
Re:Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, d...
by wmf on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:09PM
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The question is not what Google presumably does but what they actually do.
Re:Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, d...
by iron0013 on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:15PM
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What they actually do is give data to law enforcement when users make violent and terroristic threats, which is what the right-wing users described in the article did. I know this because I read the article.
Reading the article is usually a great way to find out what the article says, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in knowing what they’re talking about before they open their mouth to opine.
Re:Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, d...
by m0zg on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:17PM
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Fun fact: when Trump was elected, Google's CFO, Ruth Porat, cried on stage during their weekly company meeting. I'll let you determine yourself whether there might be a bit of a bias in investigating left wing violent extremism.