s from law enforcement. The most famous example is Apple’s refusal to unlock the suspect’s iPhone after the 2015 San Bernardino shooting.It’s really hard and expensive to push back on these cases. As much as they are saying that they look into every single one, I mean, if you have tens of thousands every six months, there’s only so many that you’re going to be like, “OK, this might be overly broad. It’s worth us pushing back on.
In one instance, while it didn’t say Planned Parenthood on her Google Maps route, there was a pin right where the Planned Parenthood location was, showing that she did stop there. Google basically said, “Well, it’s because Google Maps didn’t detect that she went to the Planned Parenthood. They detected that she went to the locations around it.” But her search history still said Planned Parenthood.
There has been a lot of conversation about moving toward end-to-end encryption. How much would that change the picture vis-à-vis law enforcement?It would change it drastically. The only way to protect user data in a surefire, guaranteed way is to not collect it. In lieu of that, making all of that data end-to-end encrypted would effectively do a lot of the same thing. Tech companies will no longer be storing that data.