That’s not the case with Google. They have LERS which is a fairly s treamlined process for law enforcement.
https://policies.google.com/terms/information-requests?hl=en-US
If something is an immediate emergency though they can process it sooner.
That sounds like fun, its however a very anglo approach. For instance, here in Portugal its not a corporation that decides how it should be approached by law enforcement, they do not use that system. I know that for a fact.
I think it’s more to facilitate the upload of court documents, and that kind of thing with audit trail. Given the size of companies like Google, and even Microsoft they’re likely to have such portals to keep everything together.
Portugal is a fairly small country of only about 10 million people, so probably not a huge number of requests even come from there anyway, whereas the US has 331 million people, so there is obviously going to be more requests to be handled.
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Maybe to add Fossify instead?
Any PG team members here? I agree with this
No we never did [endorse Simple Mobile Tools], partly because I figured this sort of thing would probably happen to them (especially after they released that phone hardware last year)
We’ve never endorsed any of them [apps by Simple Mobile Tools] because they aren’t particularly privacy friendly in any way whatsoever. They’re just some apps, that were open source. There are plenty of apps that are open source out there that we don’t recommend.
we very intentionally never recommended Simple Mobile Tools!
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Just for the record afaik Simple Apps were never listed on the PG. Ah nvm @redoomed1 said the same.
Oh sorry for misunderstanding 