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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by kllrnohj on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @12:57PM (#6684099)
Receiving a broadcast isn't illegal - you shove it out into the air, you lost all privacy rights on that broadcast legally speaking.

You can debate the ethics of it, but it wasn't illegal. And Google did get penalized for it.

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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by CaptainZapp on Friday November 08, 2013 @05:02AM (#6695395)
I'm not sure about the storage issue. At least not in the EU, which has pretty heavy restrictions on data collection and storage.
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