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  • funneling data to Trumpistan

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 01:50:32 2025
    From the «time to poison the well» department:
    Title: Apple, Google, Meta are sharing more data with the US government than ever, Proton finds
    Author: Siôn Geschwindt
    Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:32:31 +0000
    Link: https://thenextweb.com/news/big-tech-sharing-more-data-with-us-government Podcast Download URL: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F02%2FUntitled-design-16.jpg&signature=f7b986d38ba89fc5d60e982fb8725b9c

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    Most of us share and store huge amounts of personal data online, from our names and addresses to photos of our loved ones. In many ways, firms like Apple, Google, and Meta are the gatekeepers of this sensitive information. But what happens when the authorities come knocking? It appears that Silicon Valley often rolls over and complies.  Over the last 10 years, Apple, Google, and Meta
    have handed over data on 3.1 million accounts to the US government, according to a new report by Swiss software company Proton.  The number of times officials have requested user data from Big Tech…

    This story continues[2] at The Next Web

    Or just read more coverage about: Apple[3]

    Links:
    [1]: https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=796%2C417url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F02%2FUntitled-design-16.jpg&signature=f7b986d38ba89fc5d60e982fb8725b9c (image)
    [2]: https://thenextweb.com/news/big-tech-sharing-more-data-with-us-government?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)
    [3]: https://thenextweb.com/company/apple (link)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 1 21:17:01 2025
    On 02 Mar 2025 01:50:32 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    Over the last 10 years, Apple, Google, and Meta have handed over
    data on 3.1 million accounts to the US government, according
    to a new report by Swiss software company Proton.�

    I believe there is a service fee....along with a legal warrant.

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