Comment by mikece
3 years ago
"Google will allow law enforcement to access data from its Nest products — or theoretically any other data you store with Google — without a warrant."
At this point, what doesn't Google know or is unable to accurately infer about any given person on the internet?
At this point I cannot believe that anyone in Tech would have a Google account being that they should know better. Anyone could be made to look guilty when the authorities have enough data.
Adding this for the people who keep downvoting this:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engin...
"Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress has ascertained that the Silicon Valley giant has recently hired dozens of professionals from the Central Intelligence Agency in recent years."
We are imprisoned by our addiction to convenience. I am in the middle of dealing with this now, switching my services where I can: dumb phone, linux laptop, swisscows, openstreetmap and an old Garmin GPS, and just being OK with uncertainty.
> old Garmin GPS
I want this. Which model did you get and does it have up-to-date maps?
I have Garmin Drive 51. Yes, up to date maps. The only PITA is that you need windows or MacOS to update the system and the maps. I have a windows clone I put on my laptop every few months to accomplish this.
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"Any" includes people who do not use Google and this is about 10% of online users. For them, a lot.
They still have facial recognition feeds, car feeds, and they purchase data from third-party consumer surveillance firms, including credit card purchase histories for non-Google users. You don't need to have a Google account to be tracked by AdWords, and there's no practical opt-out, other than staying logged in all the time, and then being tracked in other ways, and agreeing to all sorts of things in their (ever-changing) EULA.
https://epic.org/documents/google-purchase-tracking/
I'm sure they have other programs I haven't heard of.
Sure, but not using Google for search, and having an ad-blocking browser circumvents 99% of that threat.