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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by jjav on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:47AM (#30343525)
> There is a fair number of companies that I trust more than the US government.

Assuming a US jurisdiction and companies with US presence, the trust you can place in a company is a strict subset of the trust you can place in the government.

Remember companies only exist as enabled by various laws and the government can and will use court orders or even NSLs to extract whatever information it wants from the companies.

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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by sokoloff on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:56AM (#30344567)
That’s not entirely true: They cannot extract information that the company doesn’t have, which would often come up if the company was careful to not capture it in the first place.
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Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app by jjav on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:24AM (#30348559)
> That’s not entirely true: They cannot extract information that the company doesn’t have

For that data, you're not trusting the company with it either since they don't have it.

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