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Re:Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S... by anonym29 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:30AM (#47024444)
Apple was a PRISM partner. They share just as much with the NSA as Microsoft and Google.
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Re:Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S... by gruez on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:07AM (#47024803)
>They share just as much with the NSA as Microsoft and Google.

For something like icloud vs gmail/gdrive, they're approximately the same, but that doesn't mean "they share just as much [...] as Microsoft and Google. If they never collected data in the first place, they don't have to share with NSA. The most obvious would be for location data, which apple keeps on-device and google did not (although they did switch to on device a few years ago).

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Re:Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S... by mrcwinn on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:17AM (#47024896)
Remember when Apple PR spent a bunch of time putting Tim Cook alongside images of RFK? Civil rights hero! That campaign wouldn’t land these days.
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Re:Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S... by wredcoll on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:36PM (#47026142)
Rfk the brainworms guy?
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Re:Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S... by trevwilson on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:26PM (#47027204)
In this case, the same-named father of the brainworms guy
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