Somehow people let any given explanation do the job to explain this away, but I can only think "creepy" and have frustration about it.
You can deGoogle Android, but you can't deGoogle an iPhone or a television.
Worst thing is that it's pretty extralegal right now because you are in a somewhat binding agreement just by using a product -- which is dumb, because for some reason digital products are the only ones that can do this.
The government just successfully outsources it to third parties, then either buys or forcibly takes the data through well established backdoors (a la iOS, but everyone is delusional if they think that Apple is the only one with a government backdoor).
Somehow people let any given explanation do the job to explain this away, but I can only think "creepy" and have frustration about it.
You can deGoogle Android, but you can't deGoogle an iPhone or a television.
Worst thing is that it's pretty extralegal right now because you are in a somewhat binding agreement just by using a product -- which is dumb, because for some reason digital products are the only ones that can do this.
The government just successfully outsources it to third parties, then either buys or forcibly takes the data through well established backdoors (a la iOS, but everyone is delusional if they think that Apple is the only one with a government backdoor).