Law enforcement requires user data from Apple, Google and Meta, which means these companies can decide whether government authorities can access your personal information, including location data. This means that the fact that the most insightful companies in our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbitrators of our constitutional rights and non-U.S. civil rights is actually perhaps more acute than ever.
The cooperation between Big Tech and the Trump administration began with Donald Trump taking the oath of office on January 20. Amazon, Dollar, Google, Microsoft and Uber respectively provided $1 million for Trump’s inauguration. Also, among individual donations, so are Fellow CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook.
Americans who follow the Trump administration and Silicon Valley’s focus on this may think of becoming “digital expatriates” to make your digital life stand out from the American system. Meanwhile, Europeans began to see American data services as “no longer safe” for businesses, governments and society.
Here is a brief introduction to privacy, security, and civil liberties issues related to the use of digital services based on the United States, which suddenly feel urgent and what to do.
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Due to Trump’s inauguration, the Facebook, Instagram and threads that are owned by the Lord are aligned with the Trump administration’s values, allowing hate speech and abuse of “topics like immigration and gender.” Meta also shows its loyalty by throwing away its fact checker, a regular goal of Maga World Ire. Two days after the inauguration ceremony, Meta quietly launched a reconciliation action for his loved ones through suppression and account suspension. “We now have the opportunity to create productive partnerships with the U.S. government,” Zuckerberg explained the company’s new guidance to employees.
Meta did not immediately respond to our request for comment regarding its partnerships, data sharing or policy changes.
Google follows. The company changed its maps and search results to part of the world renamed (Gulf of Mexico) and renamed it to the U.S. Gulf under Trump’s executive order, although the U.S. claims to control less than 50% of the Gulf. Apple and Microsoft also followed Trump’s orders.
Google’s consumer products have also received a series of updates with the new management, including further changes to maps, calendars and searches. Next, Google removed the new government’s “ban” clause from its Google Health products. It then made a rough commitment on public commitment to AI tools that do not build weapons, such as the Dragonfly Project, which was found in 2018 to tailor Google’s entire platform to enable China to actively attack citizens. When commenting, Google did not respond immediately.
Large-scale technologies that are aligned with the Trump administration are important because their business models rely on monitoring and accumulating our personal data. Meta, Google, Apple and other large tech companies are privacy and government requirements for user data. Even if technology companies have to comply with the law, they are usually still free to decide on the information they collect about people and how long does the data be stored.
Government lecture notes
Current laws regarding technology, privacy and government requirements have been guided by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, U.S. court rulings, and the willingness of tech companies to question the federal government’s belief that it has the right to access our personal information and location data. Apple, Google, and Meta have languages about law enforcement data requests that make them look like we support in overdoing. Now, as companies shape certain policies, tools and practices that have “partnerships” with the Trump administration, these companies’ power over our data will become a new focus.
Often, law enforcement can force U.S. companies to hand over user data using subpoenas, court orders, search warrants (or in rare cases, national security letters (NSLs). As Google explains, NSL is “one of the authorities granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).” Google added: “FISA orders and authorizations can be used to force electronic monitoring and disclosure of stored data, including content from services such as Gmail, Drive and Photos.” How companies respond to these requirements may vary.
