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Yeah, I realize it's worse than that... When did I say otherwise? I even started off the comment by stating that Apple and Google's privacy features were made for anti-competitive reasons, not to benefit the consumer.

Your type of fear-mongering isn't really helpful though. It just makes people feel powerless to large corporations and makes people try to address the wrong issues. It's important to accurately state what they are collecting and how they are using that data. We spent a decade complaining about Google not respecting privacy and selling data and what we got was Google gaining even more power. Because, that wasn't what Google was doing or their end goal.

I don't have the energy to pore through Senate rules and find out why this is a thing. But letting one of the Senate's biggest responsibilities be barred by a single Senator seems like a huge oversight.

To say they are part of it kind of implies they even had a choice. When Yahoo tried to fight being a part of the program they were going to be fined $250k a day.

Only for things that are on Google's servers. If you have something that's on-device police will use something like Cellbrite to access it.

The vast majority of stuff Google has on their servers isn't really all that useful to law enforcement anyway and Google requires a search warrant before handing it over. And they generally notify the user when it happens (when legally allowed to do so). Most useful would probably be location data, but law enforcement can also get similar information from cell phone companies (who are much more carefree about handing over subscriber data).

Google and Apple are both actually kind of a pain to deal with for warrant related stuff. In my line of work, I most often see subpoenas for cell phone providers and social media records as those are much easier to get.

People often act like Google is just handing out user user data to the highest bidder, but that really misunderstands their profit model. They are very protective of user data. Google does not like to give it out so that only they can be the ones to profit off of the data.

From what I've heard it's been harder for law enforcement to get into Android phones now.

Also, the whole privacy features only make Apple's data gathering more valuable because they become the only ones that can access that information. Google caught on and is doing the same thing with their privacy features. Privacy features are nice, but it's naive to think that Apple and Google don't have other ulterior motives with implementing them.

It would be pretty hypocritical given that a third of SCOTUS believes in the independent state legislature theory which pretty much lets states legislatures do whatever they want with regards to federal elections. But, that's probably not going to stop them siding with Trump.

There are some dishes that should only be handwashed though. Most knives, pots, and pans shouldn't be dishwashed. Even the ones that claim to be dishwasher safe will not last as long if dishwashed.

Excellent take, but in defense of the AB PR team, I don't think they were expecting so much backlash from giving a 6 pack of beer to a trans person. I think it was just a small promotion they were doing and they were not anticipating this blowing up into something big. Right wing Twitter caught wind of it and made it a much bigger deal than it was.

No thanks. If this is remotely successful these fucks will next use it to Minority Report us.

They all suck, but bow-tie guy who is currently filling in the position seems like one of the less crazy options (despite kicking Pelosi out of her office).

Me too, but it brings me great joy to make the process as tedious as possible for the questioner and go through every single city I've ever lived in.

Most give up by the third or fourth city that isn't my country of origin.

Windows is constantly nagging you to switch to Edge when you use a non-Edge browser but apparently Nadella is totally cool with that.

If you browse some of the catholic subreddits (not sure if they've made their way to Lemmy yet) you'll see that many conservative catholics question the legitimacy of the current Pope.

It seems like the more conservative catholics attack him the further left he goes.

I'd like to know why the fuck Americans are traveling to Paris to go to Disneyland. We have two perfectly good Disney theme parks in the US. Why not go to France and enjoy French things??

Edit: OP is an idiot. Another commenter determined that less than 10% of visitors to Disneyland France are American.

Letting your child touch something hot (like a stove) to teach them a lesson is in itself physical abuse...

Love the double standard. When you do this as a passenger to get a cheaper fare the airliner will ban you for life.

It's kind of conflicting because I hate him, but I also love how much the Republicans (especially McCarthy) hate him.