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This is why it matters whether you use Google's Chrome browser or Android devices:
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands | Politics and Law - CNET News
It's not that the feds can't do the same with Apple or Microsoft. It's that Google's business model is collecting, storing, and selling as much and as detailed user information as possible. If you allow yourself to be tracked with tracking cookies, which operate in the background, then where you go, what you buy, who you talk to, and what you say are for sale to anyone who'll pay for it, as well as to the government. There are no assurances that privacy settings are not being bypassed in Android and Chrome. Google was caught a while ago by Apple bypassing the privacy settings in Safari without telling the user. That practice was stopped immediately by Apple. Google is evil.
A federal judge has ruled that Google must comply with the FBIs warrantless requests for confidential user data, despite the search companys arguments that the secret demands are illegal, Declan McCullagh reports for CNET.
CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco rejected Googles request to modify or throw out 19 so-called National Security Letters, a warrantless electronic data-gathering technique used by the FBI that does not need a judges approval, McCullagh reports. Her ruling came after a pair of top FBI officials, including an assistant director, submitted classified affidavits.
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands | Politics and Law - CNET News
It's not that the feds can't do the same with Apple or Microsoft. It's that Google's business model is collecting, storing, and selling as much and as detailed user information as possible. If you allow yourself to be tracked with tracking cookies, which operate in the background, then where you go, what you buy, who you talk to, and what you say are for sale to anyone who'll pay for it, as well as to the government. There are no assurances that privacy settings are not being bypassed in Android and Chrome. Google was caught a while ago by Apple bypassing the privacy settings in Safari without telling the user. That practice was stopped immediately by Apple. Google is evil.
