To be fair: previous generations of police officers, back when most people used phones, have made extensive use of wiretapping (and current policemen still do, of course).
gomp
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Makes perfect sense to me (not a lawyer, not a US person)... what doesn't make sense is how many people still think biometric is high security (maybe because of how cool they make it look in the movies?)
a rounding error on my part, sorry 😋
More seriously, I was thinking more of foss desktop environments and user programs (which are basically the same all over) than about the actual os - thanks for correcting me
linux rules because it's the only os built for its users rather than some company stocks
(only tangentially related) what does 'driver' mean in windows lingo? I thought it was hardware-related stuff but I'm probably wrong.
capitalism in a nutshell
Well... google mainly optimizing for its own profits and gray SEO being profitable are both consequences of the prolonged monopoly google held on search.
Governments (and the public sector in general) are treated way worse by companies than private customers who can far more easily switch to a competitor or influence others to do so
A subpeana is a court order so that’s clear as mud.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/court-orders-subpoenas/index.html
I’m not sure how newsworthy this whole topic is
It's right there in the first paragraph:
Apple will now require [...] in a shift from the previous practice of accepting a subpoena to hand over data.
You seem to be describing the US system (or some other common law one... but I believe district attorney is a US-specific term?)...
IDK about other EU countries (I guess they are all the same in this regard?), but in my Italy the public prosecutor has zero discretionary power when it comes to indictment and must, per the Italian Constitution, proceed based on the investigation outcomes. So there is no "help me catch the bigger fish and I'll only charge you with some minor crime" like in the movies.
So... yes, what you describe can happen to anyone, but it can't happen just anywhere :)