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> Germany went to war with big tech.

They went to war with not getting a cut, after concluding that they'd lost the tech battle to Americans. That was a different deal than the current attempt at controlling the earth under the guise of a mandate to "stop the spread of fascism". (They don't seem interested in toppling dictators in Africa or Southeast Asia, though, they just seem interested in fucking with the US.)

> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-admits-storing-private-data

Google was dumping people's wifi traffic, it was probably a CIA thing.

Samy Kamkar (an :liberty: American :eagle911:) demonstrated this by making a website that used Google's APIs to geolocate routers by their MAC addresses, until Google locked down that API (which was intended for Android devices, to allow more precise tracking by using visible wifi routers to triangulate the phone, and then using that data to triangulate new routers). This was before PRISM was leaked, so you can imagine how much of that data was fed directly to the Three-Letter Agencies.