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Re:Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to si... by toast0 on Friday October 31, 2025 @12:46AM (#45768530)
In this scheme, the government would be deprived of its legal right to obtain information about a business's customer without the consent or knowledge of said customer.

In many/most? cases, a customer can be notified and can attempt to block such information gathering, but there are also many where it's not permitted.

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Re:Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to si... by victorbjorklund on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:03AM (#45769415)
then pretty much every crime is ”fraud”. You are wrong.
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Re:Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to si... by Retric on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:38AM (#45771365)
No, speeding and nearly every other traffic offense is just brazenly doing the thing. There’s no deception required to facilitate drunk and disorderly conduct, trespassing, dumping your sofa by the side of the road, or just walk up to someone and start beating on them.

Really most crimes don’t require deception.

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Re:Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to si... by victorbjorklund on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @04:15PM (#45815970)
if you beat someone up you are defrauding their insurance company that has to pay for it and the govt that now has an injured tax payer that can’t pay taxes as well as a tax payer that wasn’t beat up. Can you prove that insurance companies don’t have to pay a single dollar if you beat someone up?
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