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sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours ago

DOJ reportedly demands Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of car app

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sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours ago
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According to a new report from Forbes, the Department of Justice is demanding Apple, Amazon, and Google hand over “identities,...
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    Stop installing apps.

    You are the product.

    • theherk@lemmy.world
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      How did you post this comment?

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        He used smoke signals to a buddy in Kyrgyzstan that has a Linux based Chinese knock off brand of DOS based untraceable burner phone

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    EZ Lynk is the name of the app for anyone too lazy/busy to read the article and want to know which app to uninstall.

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      people shouldnt have that app. the current administration isnt behind tjis because we know they dont care about the clean air act.

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    This feels like a very clearly overly broad request easily challenged in any sane court. Whether that matters anymore is questionable.

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      Company is going to challenge that they can’t give that away for privacy reasons.

      But they can sell it for profit reasons.

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        Had the DOJ just purchased it from the start, we would never even be hearing about it.

        Again.

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      seems very targeted to me. they want all thebusers of an app specifically designed to disable emissions tracking.

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    A software respository containing user identifying information - what could go wrong. Let’s install them on all our phones! /s

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      It’s a mad world.

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    This is clearly shitty and should not happen! People disabling the emission control are clearly shitty assholes and should pay, a lot!

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