Are you thinking of message data? They were required to hand that over via a court ordered warrant, it didn’t make them any money. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re now pushing end to end encryption on all their messaging apps.
My point was about them operating in countries under whatever rules apply in those countries. Put another way, Meta (like most corporations) will routinely follow authoritarian laws in any large market (such as those of the US and India) where they can stand to make a lot of money (from selling advertising). Generally if they don’t, it will be either directly or indirectly profit-related.
Right, but the example you gave never happened, you’re thinking of when they were court ordered to hand over messaging data of a specific individual. This is normal in any messaging service and very different than actually looking through profiles to identify individuals who may have had an abortion.
And I don’t want to come across as unsympathetic here, the laws in those states are truly fucked up, but of course they’re following the laws and the court ordered data requests of the countries they operate in for citizens in that country. You wouldn’t blame a doctor for not performing abortions in a state where it’s illegal to perform abortions right?
Are you thinking of message data? They were required to hand that over via a court ordered warrant, it didn’t make them any money. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re now pushing end to end encryption on all their messaging apps.
My point was about them operating in countries under whatever rules apply in those countries. Put another way, Meta (like most corporations) will routinely follow authoritarian laws in any large market (such as those of the US and India) where they can stand to make a lot of money (from selling advertising). Generally if they don’t, it will be either directly or indirectly profit-related.
Right, but the example you gave never happened, you’re thinking of when they were court ordered to hand over messaging data of a specific individual. This is normal in any messaging service and very different than actually looking through profiles to identify individuals who may have had an abortion.
And I don’t want to come across as unsympathetic here, the laws in those states are truly fucked up, but of course they’re following the laws and the court ordered data requests of the countries they operate in for citizens in that country. You wouldn’t blame a doctor for not performing abortions in a state where it’s illegal to perform abortions right?