Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.
Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.
How does this show “it’s rare, resource-intensive, and reserved for extraordinary circumstances” when that’s entirely based upon the word of the people doing it in secret?
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE
The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics
This article reeks of whitewashing for the government and tech industry.
They are desperate to make it look like the google cameras aren’t recording and saving data 24/7 regardless of whether you have an account or not.
It sure does. It’s an article about your deleted data being accessible by Google engineers then spends the rest of the article backtracking.
The fact that giant companies keep your data and don’t delete it when you tell them to has been true since the beginning of social media. Your things are not deleted, they’re simply marked as deleted so you don’t see them. The actual binary data never goes anywhere.
The rule of thumb is that if the data leaves your possession then assume someone has a copy of it. If it is encrypted and you don’t control your keys then it isn’t encrypted. (See: Bitlocker keys and Microsoft)
Saying google is uncooperative with law enforcement is like saying Donald Trump tried his very hardest not to rape children.