Not to defend Meta, and I could see a good case for negligence, but it's probably a hard problem to prove that the software was *intended* to circumvent data protection as opposed to simply not properly protected against malign actors.

That's what BusPatrol already does. They are a moving stop light camera that sends you a ticket if you drive past the sign while it's out. What they are wanting to do is start collecting the license plates of all the drivers the bus passes on its route.

They already are using them to issue tickets for running school bus stop signs. This is talking about having them record all the license plates they pass, regardless of whether they are doing anything dangerous.

That's my point. That's not an upgrade path, because the whole point of it was using your own domain. That's just data migration.

It reads like this was an individual contractor (as opposed to a contract company semi-officially using the site) who wanted to do something like respond to incidents without having to come in. In that case, it's a lot easier to just use GitHub than convince the proxies that your random Git server is safe to visit and upload to.

I haven't had anti-bot issues, but I have found that in the past several years, the operators only slightly affect the results, with Google still "helping" you with search terms.

G Suite is just what they were calling Workspaces before. They froze the free account features when they changed the name and introduced things like Google Meet, and kept calling the free accounts G Suite to emphasize the second class status.

It's essentially one of the names that Google Workspace used to be called. It started free, then they started charging for extra features, then they discontinued the free tier for new domains. About 5 years ago, they were going to completely kill the free tier, but there was enough outroar that they ended up allowing personal use indefinitely. Since these accounts didn't get the new features when Workspace was introduced, they called them "G-Suite legacy free edition" accounts. If you aren't using a custom domain for free (for the domain owner), you aren't using G-Suite.

No, they don't have a free upgrade path for individual (or family) users. The key thing was the custom domain, which is only available with a paid account. When it was available, it wasn't that uncommon for a tech-savvy family to have their own custom domain backed by G-Suite. Now, there's no free option for this anymore.

The other issue is that since these are being reported as security bugs, the bug tracker is private at least until it has been triaged, if not until patched. Outside contributors can't deduplicate against private bugs.

Do you pronounce it jay-feg because photographic starts with an f sound, or scuh-ba because of underwater?

Or if you are a sensitive enough target to bother keeping your data long enough to use quantum computers on it.

It's not, actually. The article breathlessly talks about how much location tracking it is doing, but then it adds at the end a note to the effect that "it's not actually able to do any of this tracking without asking for user permission, which it doesn't try to get." It looks like they used some SDK for notifications that includes the tracking capability but didn't actually request the needed permissions.

The problem is that they also restrict you from using their trademarks. It seems you are both supposed to use their branding and prohibited from doing so.

They seem to somewhat waffle on that. Their FAQ calls it a legal notice, but in some of their communications, they refer to it as attribution. It's worth noting that they do have conflicting terms. They claim that by paragraph 7(b) they can insist that you maintain their logo, but they also use 7(e) to deny use of their trademarks. They state several places they are open source, not FOSS, but they are trying to have it both ways by claiming a FOSS license.