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Re:When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google ... by JohnFen on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:55PM (#38002754)
It is, but the enforcement mechanism is a bit different.
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Re:When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google ... by pdonis on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:13PM (#38003032)
How so?
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Re:When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google ... by JohnFen on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:44AM (#38013356)
In a court, the court determines if something is perjury and what the repercussions will be. That's not the case with congress. With congress, the congressional committee doesn't decide if perjury happened. It has to ask the Department of Justice to investigate and, if it did, the DoJ has the option of bringing charges in an actual court of law.

It may seem like a small difference, but it's pretty large in practice.

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