In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.
    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I completely block them with DNS and have considered IP blocks as well. I prefer it this way because in iOS it’s not just Google apps and websites contacting Google, it’s all sorts of third-party apps and websites too.

      In fact I learned the hard way that cellular carriers in the US have given up on RCS deployments and defer it all to Google: you have to specifically unblock some Google servers if you want RCS to work on iOS.

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Remember playing Outer Worlds and thinking this is closer to reality than i’m comfortable with… we’re living this. Need to finish de-Googling.