floofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoGoogle will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the policewww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down11
arrow-up1178arrow-down1external-linkGoogle will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the policewww.businessinsider.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squaresilentknyght@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt’s believable. If 25% of the warrants they receive are for location data, there is a shed load of money to be saved by simply not storing it. Probably simple math, whether or not the stored location data is more valuable than the cost of legal compliance.
I’m not buying it.
It’s believable. If 25% of the warrants they receive are for location data, there is a shed load of money to be saved by simply not storing it.
Probably simple math, whether or not the stored location data is more valuable than the cost of legal compliance.