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by account42 25 days ago
That sounds like an actually socially useful use of their budgets.
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Exactly, this theory is absurd because they would never help society, they could just use Google Maps/ other proprietary data.

By improving OSM, it allows people to use privacy respecting maps like CoMaps which work offline. I'm sure intelligence agencies are pretty happy with the ability to ask Google where any google account is at any time.

Billions of people us Google maps, is that not disturbing that google knows where that many people are?