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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime::(Bloomberg) – Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime.Most Read from BloombergNetanyahu, Under Pressure Over Hostage Deaths, Vows to Press OnMike Johnson May Be the Next House Speaker to Lose His Job‘Underwater’ Car Loans Signal US Consumers Slammed by High RatesUS Navy Shoots Do

  • odelik@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Wouldn’t the inability to process the volume of request from LEOs be an apt example of an operational bottleneck?

    • oDDmON@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The article didn’t state that Google had problems responding to LE requests.

      Also, Google can have as much capacity as God, whenever they decide to put their will to something.

      They also consume data like mortals consume chips, and one bar chart would be all it took for them to address a potential bottleneck, and rising liability, by finally eliminating it.