> Google will soon store Maps users’ location history locally on their devices instead of in the cloud, a big change that will make it more difficult for law enforcement to access the data.
@kkarhan It is possible what you say is true – I entirely grant that Google purporting to do something that reduces their own ability to surveill their customers merits skepticism! – but I don't believe for a moment the CLOUD Act frustrates this. Quite to the contrary this seems like a pretty obvious effective out from the CLOUD Act. Getting it off your servers is in fact the only way out of the CLOUD Act, AFAIK. Do you have some more specific reason to believe that they can't do this? @verge
Because they are bound by U.S. law and #CloudAct was specifically designed to enforce #Cyberfacism in the sense that if a company operates or is incorporated in the USA, ALL their brances, subsidiaries amd parent companirs must comply with every U.S. law even if they don't transact with U.S. citizens/organizations/corporations and/or U.S. (occupied/annexed) soil...
I doubkt Google can do so unless they were to suicide their data-driven business...
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