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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by andrewla on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:21PM (#41229456)
Interesting tangent to this is that Google has recently announced that they are shutting down their "Timeline" service in favor of having that information stored locally on the user device. I wonder if this is a "do no evil" reaction to geofence warrants -- if Google does not have the information they cannot give it to law enforcement. This has been Google's practice in other situation (GDPR) where retaining information inherently exposes Google's customers to law enforcement violations of their privacy via Google itself.
Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by weaksauce on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:27PM (#41229518)
> do no evil

google dropped that slogan a decade or more ago

Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by andrewla on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:31PM (#41229565)
> And remember ... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right -- speak up! [1]

[1] http://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct

Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by mc32 on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:47PM (#41229709)
Please snitch. No, I mean it, snitch on the dirty things Google does in gathering user data and selling behavioral data to the largest bidder.

I'm for total blind advertising. Non-targeted --not on the individual level. No smaller than ZIP.

Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by ikmckenz on Monday August 12, 2024 @06:02PM (#41229855)
No, they didn’t. After corporate restructuring, parent company Alphabet uses a different cute slogan, while Google retains “don’t be evil” in their code of conduct.