Comment by zokier
3 years ago
I have difficulty understanding Googs (or Amazons etc) motivation to do this. What do they have to gain by being excessively cooperative with police force, especially on a local level? I can understand that having good rapport with feds might have benefits, but this doesn't sound like that
Amazon's motivation is quite clear - they want to reduce shrinkage by discouraging "porch pirates" from stealing Amazon deliveries. Not sure what Google's motivation is, but it might just come down to optics. Consider how Apple gets raked over the coals in the media by DAs when they refuse to unlock a suspects phone.
> Amazon's motivation is quite clear - they want to reduce shrinkage by discouraging "porch pirates" from stealing Amazon deliveries.
You say they hand all the information to the police to prevent package stealing? Iam pretty sure thats not the reason at all, maybe a very very little part of it.
Just giving out the data with no due diligence saves billable hours from their lawyers.
Simple, if they cooperate without being asked by warrant they might hope that their using the underlying data may be overlooked and not reviewed by say oh US Congress.