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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime (finance.yahoo.com)

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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime::(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime.Most Read from BloombergNetanyahu, Under Pressure Over Hostage Deaths, Vows to Press OnMike Johnson May Be the Next House Speaker to Lose His Job‘Underwater’ Car Loans Signal US Consumers Slammed by High RatesUS Navy Shoots Do

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

They're probably going to keep doing it even though they said they'd stop

[-] grayman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The police are now required to say please and thank you.

[-] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago

That means they got better methods of tracking, or send the data straight to the accurate person, cutting the middleman.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 11 months ago

Why would they. Don't like they gain anything by giving this information to the police.

They probably been forced by other countries to have some kind of effective data protection it's ridiculous employees have random access to this data.

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