Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
It’s not just an issue of them giving up the logs, they have to give them over if there is a warrant.
It’s a matter of them not recording info in the first place. A lot of cellphone providers sell data collected from customers to 3rd parties , including location data (even if you have GPS turned off on your phone, they still know based on your distance from towers).
I’ve heard good things about phreeli. Their pitch is that they don’t keep logs and offer a lot of ways to pay that minimize how much info they have about you, so even with a warrant there’s not much they can hand over. They piggy back off existing networks for good coverage. Worth looking in to if you’re legitimately interested.
It’s not just an issue of them giving up the logs, they have to give them over if there is a warrant.
It’s a matter of them not recording info in the first place. A lot of cellphone providers sell data collected from customers to 3rd parties , including location data (even if you have GPS turned off on your phone, they still know based on your distance from towers).
I’ve heard good things about phreeli. Their pitch is that they don’t keep logs and offer a lot of ways to pay that minimize how much info they have about you, so even with a warrant there’s not much they can hand over. They piggy back off existing networks for good coverage. Worth looking in to if you’re legitimately interested.
I agree that not recording things in the first place is better, but in this case it wasn’t a warrant. They could have just said no.
As if any company would do that. Hell, even Ring (the home security camera people) have an open access policy to local police departments.
In this case Google said no. Well really they asked how the request was related to customs, but the effect was not giving the info.