In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.
  • FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I say this because the threat from google just went from “Ad-related surveillance capitalism” to “supplying Data to fascist Regimes to hunt you down”

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Yes, but why using sandboxed play services is not enough? What identifiable data are you leaking? Especially with VPN.