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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
Mashable ^
| 3.23.2024
| Chase DiBenedetto
Posted on 03/24/2024 1:31:53 PM PDT by libh8er
If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to "put you on some kind of list," your concern may be more than warranted.
In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and IP addresses that watched select YouTube videos, part of a larger criminal investigation by federal investigators.
The videos were sent by undercover police to a suspected cryptocurrency launderer under the username "elonmuskwhm." In conversations with the bitcoin trader, investigators sent links to public YouTube tutorials on mapping via drones and augmented reality software, Forbes details. The videos were watched more than 30,000 times, presumably by thousands of users unrelated to the case.
YouTube's parent company Google was ordered by federal investigators to quietly hand over all such viewer data for the period of Jan. 1 to Jan. 8, 2023, but Forbes couldn't confirm if Google had complied.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Technical
KEYWORDS: crypto; google; goolag; internet; marxisttyranny; policestate; privacy; spying; surveillance; videos; youtube
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To: Reno89519
“I guess we really are to the point of Stalin-esque show me the person, I’ll show you the crime.”
The Government would need 57,000 new IRS Agents to get to that point.
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posted on
03/24/2024 2:33:47 PM PDT
by
Does so
( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
To: libh8er
To: libh8er
Remember when Person of Interest was just a TV show?
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posted on
03/24/2024 2:41:46 PM PDT
by
Retain Mike
( Sat Cong)
To: libh8er
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posted on
03/24/2024 2:44:40 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Ne supra crepidam.)
To: I want the USA back; John Robinson
We must recognize that the Department of Homeland Security, through the Patriot Act, bypassed the Amendment forbidding illegal search two decades ago and the other agencies took that as a go-ahead - so ALL of us here on Free Republic being patriotic Constitutionalists revering God-given freedoms are "Enemies of the State" to the totally Democrat Party culture dominating the bureaucracy making up our Federal government and all it's Beltway tentacles.
I so love this site and many of it's contributors but worry should the bastards actually move to shut it down...like I worry they'll make a "Black Swan" excuse to shut down the election should Trump's votes become too overwhelming to cover with rigged machines and falsified mail-ins.
But hey; a "Wild Bunch" quick retirement scenario taking a lot of them along isn't off my table. Sure beats lingering.
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posted on
03/24/2024 2:47:20 PM PDT
by
MikelTackNailer
(Our rights come from God not government. If we don't stand with Him we can't expect His support.)
To: libh8er
I just Googled the “Badger, Badger, Badger” and “Dancing Baby” videos to throw them off my scent….
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:01:54 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: ducttape45
I only found out about the don’t recommend option recently. It has improved my viewing experience immensely.
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:08:05 PM PDT
by
who_would_fardels_bear
(What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
To: libh8er
I never had watched the tv series Bull until recently. Old show had them investigate the jurors and mentioned “I want every post,every email,every phone call on their cell, every search they made on Google, every topic they searched on other search engines and everything they bought with a credit card or debit card.”
“Should I be asking you where we get this information.”
“No. We just get it.”
Back when the first edition of The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency by James Bamfield came out (1982) and before the later book by that author The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (2008) we were shocked to know the NSA was recording our phone conversations. No longer shocking.
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:16:40 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Already inside the wire. Your screwed. You are now some cutout to a white power fake tale.
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:17:17 PM PDT
by
wgmalabama
(Censored!)
To: libh8er
The government will commit the crime as depicted in the video. Then they’ll pick the perp out of those who watched the video.
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:22:51 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Sometimes I think I spend more time going thru the suggestions and weeding them out than I do actually watching the videos. LOL
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:44:10 PM PDT
by
ducttape45
(Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
To: VanShuyten
Badger——
Yes!
.
That will Work——GENIUS!!!
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:49:42 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
To: VanShuyten
All your base are belong to us
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:57:27 PM PDT
by
No.6
To: libh8er
They complied. They’re Google, a deep state’s bestest pal.
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posted on
03/24/2024 3:58:14 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: EvilCapitalist
I like to watch Pawn Stars videos, does that count?
= = =
I hope ‘pawn stars’ is not new england for ‘porn stars’.
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posted on
03/24/2024 4:08:34 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
To: existentially_kuffer
This is why I post NOW. To help people learn, memorize and SHARE with others.
Because THIS will be a thought crime in the not-too-distant future.
(2nd Thessalonians 2:8-12 - King James Version
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His Coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be Saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them Strong Delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.) (lurkers please click on my screenname to see my FR homepage for more information)
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posted on
03/24/2024 4:09:08 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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posted on
03/24/2024 4:10:15 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: libh8er
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
PASS IT ON....
To: libh8er
So if I am watching Kamala doing porn, investigators will be checking that???
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posted on
03/24/2024 4:56:18 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
To: libh8er
“...but Forbes couldn’t confirm if Google had complied.”
...funny like an unfunny clown, that statement is...
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posted on
03/24/2024 5:02:15 PM PDT
by
SheepWhisperer
(Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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