Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime

by grammers on 12/16/2023, 9:02:06 PM with 28 comments

  • by advisedwang on 12/16/2023, 11:54:42 PM

    The actual blog post that this article rehashes: https://blog.google/products/maps/updates-to-location-histor...

  • by nulld3v on 12/16/2023, 11:18:27 PM

    Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure this wouldn't really help given that service providers still maintain records of which phones connected to which towers.

    It's still a nice change though, and I like that they allow users to still send encrypted backups of their location history to the cloud.

  • by est31 on 12/16/2023, 11:20:54 PM

    Tbh with 5G around, there is no need for Google's data. Carriers can localize phones well enough already now.

  • by ChrisArchitect on 12/17/2023, 2:15:16 AM

    [dupe]

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660646

  • by jakobov on 12/17/2023, 2:21:16 AM

    Maybe a bit contrarian but unless law enforcement is abusing this I think it's good for Google to share this info. I want to live in a society where criminals are caught.