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> a private company knowing exactly where you are at all moments

Someone else commented that this has already been the case for ... at least a decade, for basically everyone (in the U.S.) – the cell phone carriers are those private companies. And there is substantial evidence that they're even less trustworthy than Google.




Telecommunications companies are utilities whose use of this data is highly regulated. Google not only has locaton, it has contacts, browsing history, calendar, gmail, etc, and it has the legal right to combine this information together.


So Google gets a free pass for collecting information the user explicitly opted not to provide because another company does it too?

I hope you realize how flawed that line of logic is.




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