Re:Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy
by cheeseomlit on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:34PM
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It's not like they hacked into Google's servers without their knowledge or consent, they were given access to the data. Obviously those who knew about it at Google were under gag orders, but one would hope that somebody involved would have the balls to leak the government's blatantly unconstitutional and illegal demands to the press regardless. Those gag orders wouldn't have held up in court if anybody at one of the PRISM companies had the conscience to go rogue. Every company involved in PRISM can be rightfully accused of colluding with the government to violate the basic 4th amendment rights of millions of people, knowingly and willingly.
Re:Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy
by roywiggins on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:01PM
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I didn't get the impression that MUSCULAR (intercepting Google's inter-datacenter links, distinct from PRISM) involved Google's cooperation.
Re:Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy
by EMM_386 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:05PM
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> It's not like they hacked into Google's servers without their knowledge or consent, they were given access to the data.
This is not true. The NSA hacked Google without their consent.
The relevant slide from the Snowden leak is here:
https://i.imgur.com/7IHE6sG.png
> Snowden leaks: Google 'outraged' at alleged NSA hacking
If you want to criticize Google's data collection, fine, but doing it in terms of the 4th amendment is just nonsensical. If you want to criticize companies for collecting data that could subsequently be illegally collected by the government, then every single company that collects any PII/private information could be criticized on the same basis.