Exactly my suspicion, honestly.
Though, to be clear, "I shoild fire my lawyer right? Yes? Fantastic? Oh no the AI made me fire my lawyer" would sort of prove Ari's point still the more, in my opinion.
...significantly lighter, in practice, and that's not bad knowledge for layfolk to have.
Buddy, you schooled somebody on Bluesky. That's like a top 3 reason people get blocked here.
If insects can find a mate doing their biological equivalent of this, so can I 😤
18 year old me already tried saving effort for the Olympics. It was hard.
Older, wiser me just wants to eat donut holes on his couch and shout into the digital void as a substitute for finding real happiness, I earned this.
The FBI isnt Swiss, stranger.
Posting is a lot less effort tho
I meet and confer all the time.
Can't always get what I want, but I'm going to get what I need and they can't stop me, so it's often more efficient to put our heads together.
Yep. And its not unique to the government! There are subpoenas I can send without affirmative judicial imprimatur.
And if something's a bit overbroad or not workable, you meet and confer.
You take that to a judge and you're gonna get clobbered.
Im not sure where this belief came from that the standard for this is super high. It isn't.
It takes about 30 minutes to accomplish that task, actually. Less if its a short civil subpoena.
Often, the deal or the checkmate occurs in private.
This is so rote ordinary as to be utterly unremarkable. A company that fought everything both wouldn’t in fact do so and would take an absolute beating. Motions to quash arent common because they'd often be frivolous and always be expensive.
Sometimes companies resist quite fiercely in invisible ways. Negotiations can last months, horse trading can occur, narrowing can be agreed upon, etc.
If they fight me in court with no real basis to quash, they risk me getting fees, and thats true in more jxns than the US.
They do this because outside counsel is more expensive at that volume.
Companies that don't get that volume, but still see discovery requests orders regularly, often employ outside counsel on contract to review them.
Source: Kathryn and I deal with these fine folks quite often.
Any company that gets subpoenas in any volume that would merit a descriptor like "often" or "in the ordinary course of business" has attorneys, plural, on staff on subpoena duty, actually. Often they rotate, but sometimes its literally the position.
Yeah, but one is bad journalism and one is not knowing what you don't know. Different sins!
Cant tell if 404's framing is ignorant or cynical, tbh
Thought so
I'm sure the male responses to this sentiment are universally reasonable, well-considered, and enlightened.
Serenity was plenty of closure, it didnt need more.
Congratulations counsel, get some rest
...that shit is on one od the most widely used memes on Al Gores internet, I have a hard time taking this shit seriously.
This is exactly what I mean by minimal, not nothing. They collect *very* little. They do not collect nothing.
And the important point for people to internalize because its knowledge that should guide behavior is "if it is collected, it is within reach of *somebody*."
I mean, you'd win that breach suit, so, yeah, even more of a no brainer.
"But they said they're privacy forward!"
They are, actually. Starkly, compared to most.
It's a court order, folks. Idk what to tell you.
There will never be a company that defies a court order in its own jurisdiction to protect you, an individual customer.
If you had that expectation...sorry, Santa is also not real.
They can store minimally, but they cant store nothing, and what they store is always going to be in somebody's reach.
It's not a company's fault you don't read their terms and policies, folks. It never will be. It will always be yours. Anger and wishing will never change it.
Folks, some people need to start realizing that your outrage isn't gonna keep them safe by itself.
And it really...didn't. The same people are in charge, they just got to get rid of Maduro.
