Google has defended its decision to respond to the warrants and said it protects users when doing so.ĬLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it's not publicly disclosed how many users' data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added. “This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. “Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes. Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial. can't you just hang up? Get rid of your phone totally if you are going to panic whenever it rings or someone asks you for your number! Living life this way.GOOGLE'S METHODS FOR SPYING ON EMPLOYEES REVEALED IN REPORT Why are people so paronoid about getting phone calls? How does anyone get identity theft from a phone call? So what if a telemarketer calls. Has a guy call me yesterday on the phone about 30 seconds after he placed a order from me wanting to know if I had more or certain comics(1st Time that ever happened to me)įedex & I think, ups requires recipients phone as well. You also get phone numbers when ordering through Google Checkout also(although you don't have to put all that info in each time you order) I'm not sure, but I think that is a PO regulation. You can't send something international to a PO box without a phone number with the endicia system. Not all people check their email daily or even weekly so having a way to communicate and get immediate results is a must. If there is a problem, item missing, etc I need to call the customer. If the address won't verify in my postage system, I need to call the customer. I thought that here the customer supplied a phone number regardless of the method of payment? Anyhow, when I order I always expect to give my phone number as part of the form. None were PayPal, just ordinary credit card orders. I didn't think anything of it, but I guess I would assume they needed it in case there was a question about my order. I placed 3 online orders on Sunday to different companies and they all asked for my phone number. Why does the ecrater Paypal checkout ask for this, before sending the customer to Paypal to finish buying? So many people these days are suspicious when a site asks for their phone number - they think they will get identity theft or tele-marketing calls, etc. Posted: Wed 11:08 am Post subject: Paypal checkout - why does form ask for phone number, etc? Paypal checkout - why does form ask for phone number, etc? :: View topic - Paypal checkout - why does form ask for phone number, etc?