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Re:Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your... by Takennickname on Sunday July 09, 2023 @07:13AM (#36653512)
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
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Re:Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your... by pugio on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:15AM (#36653845)
Truisms aside, in many cases the absence of a thing which one would expect to see is in fact a support for alternate hypotheses.

ie. "Given a world X is true, I would expect to see Y. Since I don't see Y, that's at least weak evidence that X may not be true."

There are of course plenty of other reasons why you wouldn't see Y, but it's at least some kind of signal.

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