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by neon_electro 1408 days ago
What about policy(ies) relating to providing data to law enforcement, and whether a warrant is required?

I know this is moving the goalposts from selling data - but I don't think folks concerned with data privacy are strictly and exclusively concerned about the sale of such data.

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Yeah, that is a huge problem in authoritarian jurisdictions OR if data is provided without warrant.
Warrants are easy to come by even in supposed democracies like the US or Germany. Alternatively, the US government has repeatedly shown it does not give a fuck about laws and simply compels providers to accept whatever they are doing (Room 614A), or outright hacks the company in question (e.g. Google got their datacenter fiber connections spliced).