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Tech Companies Urge Supreme Court To Boost Cellphone Privacy (reuters.com)
More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon, have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officials to access individuals' sensitive cellphone data. From a report: The companies filed a 44-page brief with the court on Monday night in a high-profile dispute over whether police should have to get a warrant before obtaining data that could reveal a cellphone user's whereabouts. Signed by some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Snap and Alphabet's Google, the brief said that as individuals' data is increasingly collected through digital devices, greater privacy protections are needed under the law. "That users rely on technology companies to process their data for limited purposes does not mean that they expect their intimate data to be monitored by the government without a warrant," the brief said.
I'm up over $400k just this year alone. Insane.
LOL, Pot.Kettle.Black.
that congress
Not the SCROTUMs job to do that.
They are better off purchasing a few senators and congresscritters.
Without that, all their pleas are extremely hollow. All this is a dog and pony show anyway. Where on the ledger does it show that it matters?
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They are the ones that sold out every customer to the admob (supercookie, anyone), they don't want Privacy for the *customers*, they don't like the gov and their favourite three-letter-agencys intruding in their networks.
The SCROTUSES on the SCOTUS appointed by the POTUS to interpret the COTUS have better things to do.
This will fail. This is something for the GOTUSES of the SOTUSES, and maybe even the ROTUSES and SOTUSES of either HOTUS.
Every time I see SCOTUS I think of SCROTUM.
Without that, all their pleas are extremely hollow. All this is a dog and pony show anyway. Where on the ledger does it show that it matters?
"better encryption" is pretty goddamned hollow when the authorities can coerce the password out of you
Then they can feel the pain like us.
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There's plenty in the protocols that could've been designed with more eye toward privacy. You can't fix that afterward with laws.
So when designing, go for full-on privacy, when you can, wherever you can. No exceptions.
Heh.
Every application on my phone wants to track my GPS coordinates...
They can turn around and sell it to anyone... including Government agencies.
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It feels like saying "Philip Morris's Nabisco". Give it up, nobody cares... it's like when Google tried to convince people for legal reasons to not use "google" as a verb, but you knew that everyone was going to do it anyway.
Since when does big telecom care about our privacy. Most of the companies were complicit in the CALEA project.
No, the government collecting your data is not the same as when private corporations do.
When Google knows what you click on, they'll show you some adds. The FBI, local SWAT or sheriff on the other hand, will kick down your door, shoot your dog, beat you to shit. If you're lucky, they go to the wrong house, and it is your neighbor who gets the treatment.
Losing privacy to advertising companies can be annoying and frustrating. Losing privacy to your government is by definition a surveillance state, and quickly becomes a police state. If you live in the USofA, you just have to look out the window to see it unfolding in front of your eyes.
That's hilarious. Even their keyboard app wants access to my Contacts list.
"...does not mean that they expect their intimate data to be monitored by the government without a warrant"
No, those tech companies just want marketing companies to monitor our intimate data "for limited purposes" (and pay the tech companies handsomely to do that).
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