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You're assuming that they're citizen accounts rather than fake accounts from pedophiles, spammers, and scammers.
Pedophiles, spammers, and scammers are still citizens.
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No, the LineageOS devs say that their project does not aim to completely de-Google the OS, only remove Google Play Services and some Google applications like Maps. Thus, geolocation, DNS and login portal detection in LineageOS still use Google's servers.
What about /e/ ? It's been a while I haven't heard about them.
Arguable worse than R, C, or Word.
"Gee, let's take the most frequently occurring letter in English usage, and bracket it with Web-significant non-text punctuation."
"e Foundation" will find them.
No idea on status/news.
The number of government requests for user information is actually scary: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview So Google handed over info on 175k accounts in the last half of 2019 alone? It seems it's becoming common practice to routinely pull citizens data, without much of a warrant and without the target's knowledge. There used to be a thing called secrecy of correspondence, preventing governmen…
I agree this is troubling but no one seems to care that the carriers know where you are 24/7 even when you aren't using your phone.
So far they are using it for beamforming, but I think location tracking is also one of the advertised use cases.
The number of government requests for user information is actually scary: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview So Google handed over info on 175k accounts in the last half of 2019 alone? It seems it's becoming common practice to routinely pull citizens data, without much of a warrant and without the target's knowledge. There used to be a thing called secrecy of correspondence, preventing governmen…
You're assuming that they're citizen accounts rather than fake accounts from pedophiles, spammers, and scammers.
2) When did people start losing their citizenship by breaking the law?
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This is hn, I expect the content of the article to be obvious to everyone here.
The other comments show this is not obvious to everyone.
Sorry, I don't mean to argue with you, I just disagreed with the "accusation" against meibo.
The place where I currently work assigned me a gmail address, and I wanted to check them on my phone. I was using k9 for my personal stuff, and wanted another app for the pro mails, so I pulled out the gmail app. Just one step before finalizing the setup process, I realized that google was asking me to accept Google Play terms of service. WTF? It turns out the gmail app setup process does much more, google takes over…
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It is very much not anonymized. It is trivially easy (albeit not cheap - around $10k/month) to buy access to mobile ad id data, draw a polygon around your house, and get all the “anonymous” ids. From there, you can see all other locations of those ids. When they anonymize you, that just means they give you an is not linked to your phone number or account. It doesn’t mean someone can’t link it for you. The best defens…
Google does not sell my data.
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> https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview WTF? This makes me extremely uncomfortable for some reason. There was some hope in mind that Snowden was exaggerating but this is just insane. It feels like liberty has failed. There's no other option but to give in and accept. I submit to the overlords, but I'm not happy about this.
Why do you give up, because other people know more about you, than you thought? Maybe giving up on the "nobody must ever know", but maybe not in general? There are still quite some steps from here to 1984, despite people dramatizing.
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You're assuming that they're citizen accounts rather than fake accounts from pedophiles, spammers, and scammers.
1) Please define 'fake account'. Does the fact that I have more than one Google account mean that some of them are 'fake'? What if I lie about or omit my government name? 2) When did people start losing their citizenship by breaking the law?
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There's a setting hidden away in android allowing apps to scan local wifi/bluetooth networks even when wifi is turned " off ". Enabled by default of course.
What settings is that?
(Supposedly; I don't own an up-to-date Android device.)