floofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 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-square61fedilinkarrow-up1492arrow-down15cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1487arrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square61fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squaresilentknyght@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 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.
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.