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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Well that’s an extreme exaggeration.

They do collect data, but a drop in the bucket to what Google collects lol.