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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by mitchitized on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:03PM (#38546526)
Wouldn't the exact opposite focus have a better effect? Going after the "evil corporations" would mean nobody was collecting the data in the first place, which would also take away the "evil government" as they have nobody to buy that data from.

Right now they just write fat checks to Google, Apple, Amazon and the telcos and badda bing, badda boom it's done.

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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by JoshTriplett on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:09PM (#38546632)
A government can (in some cases) force a company to collect information they otherwise wouldn't have. The reverse is not true. So I do think the bigger danger here is the legal framework that not only permits this but keeps it secret, rather than the mere fact of information collection.
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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by digging on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:18PM (#38546753)
I suppose if government orgs weren't allowed to buy that data, the value might drop. Significantly? Unclear.
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