As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off (go.theregister.com)

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[+] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

iirc google don't sell data, they only buy it. which makes sense considering they run their own advertising network. why would they help other networks? and they're already embedded at some point into everyone's lives, wether iphone, android, Google search engine or not. as for the government getting the data: google legally have to comply with information requests or gag requests from the USA government, as that's where their datacentres are mostly based as well as their company itself.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

google legally have to comply with information requests or gag requests from the USA government

Just because it's legal doesn't make it better. Slavery used to be legal

And sure, they don't directly sell the user data but they'll use it in any way possible for their ad customers to target and profit off of you

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yea ik it's not right, I never said it was. but they still have to comply with law whether they want to or not if their home country.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they're giving away the data of their users to be allowed to continue operating and profiting in the country, they're selling data

You're taking it too literally. Working for a company is also referred to as selling your labor

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

selling data in the article is referring to actual advertising data transactions on the "marketplace" or whatever. You're expanding it to mean something more nebulous.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that's a fair point.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this one of these safe havens for data the EU keeps talking about?

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