Why would the police go to all that hassle of compelling google to give it up when it can simply buy it on the open market.

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autoexec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Police do hit up google for data though. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...

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iso1631 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So no compelling here. The police asked for it and google gave it, either for free or in exchange for money. They didn't say "no" to the police, they didn't wait for a court order.

The bad guy here is google. And the people that champion data collection by private companies because of free market == good.

	▲	autoexec 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In that case, the main bad guy was the police who didn't bother to do even the most basic investigating after "check Google's GPS records to see who was at the house" including "Check Google's GPS records to see how how long they were there" which would have shown them this was a drive by, but yeah Google is absolutely a villain

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taneq 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The breaking point with me that caused me to de-google myself was finding out that Google was buying Mastercard records in order to cross-reference them with Android phone data. That shit is not okay.