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  • EmperorHenryEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    They’re probably going to keep doing it even though they said they’d stop

    • Ethalia@feddit.chEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      That means they got better methods of tracking, or send the data straight to the accurate person, cutting the middleman.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      Why would they. Don’t like they gain anything by giving this information to the police.

      They probably been forced by other countries to have some kind of effective data protection it’s ridiculous employees have random access to this data.