this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
145 points (97.4% liked)

Technology

81026 readers
4777 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
145
Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

While this case shows recovery is technically possible, it also shows it’s rare, resource-intensive, and reserved for extraordinary circumstances.

How does this show "it's rare, resource-intensive, and reserved for extraordinary circumstances" when that's entirely based upon the word of the people doing it in secret?

“Google is notoriously uncooperative with law enforcement; they will comply with search warrants, but in the least helpful way possible and they will fight it,” he says.

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE

The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

“Google has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account,” it read. The email advised Jon that the “legal process” was an administrative subpoena, issued by DHS. Soon, government agents would arrive at his home.

The subpoena wasn’t approved by any judge, and it didn’t require probable cause. Google gave Jon just seven days to challenge it in federal court — not nearly enough time for someone without a crack team of lawyers on retainer. Even more maddeningly, neither Google nor DHS had sent him a copy of the subpoena itself, leaving Jon and his attorney in the dark.

This article reeks of whitewashing for the government and tech industry.

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 minutes ago

It sure does. It's an article about your deleted data being accessible by Google engineers then spends the rest of the article backtracking.