Posted on 10/06/2021 2:30:05 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new "keyword warrants" and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim's name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
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.
“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.
“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. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added.
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.
Google has defended its decision to respond to the warrants and said it protects users when doing so.
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Then imagine 5 million warrants for people searching Gabby Petit on Tik Tok haha
As far as I’m concerned, Google IS the government. Facebook too.
Don’t be evil… Never mind, they scraped that slogan.
If this abuse stands it will segue into a search via key words such as ‘Constitution, patriotism, freedom, free republic, the family,’ second ament rights, Christianity,’ etc. for political dissidents. Then like Jan 6 demonstrators, they will be hunted down and arrested.
They do this for Chyna
If the Democrats are allowed to track your financial transactions of $600+, it will be Google that will use their software to profile you and determine if you are a supporter of the party or an opponent. Google already knows more about you than your friends. Soon, the government will know not just your online behavior, but your financial behavior as well.
Guess which one the IRS will harass?
If you are using ANY Google product, you are aiding and abetting the downfall of this nation. Gmail, their search engine, their cloud, ANY of it.
Our very own Stazi, right here in America..
bingo.
You are correct. The feds pull their strings. Even though big tech are leftists and readily love doing the work of Communism.
Segue implies that it isn't already there.
Re: 9 - You need to blend in.
If you use a google as a search engine, do it from a network where they use 1-to-Many NATing. From an IP address perspective, all traffic will be shown coming from the same IP address.
Re: 9 - There’s a lot more than advertisers do to “fingerprint” people to target them for ads, but hiding in plain site is a start.
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My comment uses its second definition:
"to make a transition without interruption from one activity, topic, scene, or part to another"
Notice that in definition 2, segue refers to something that is already in transition, which doesn't mean that the process of transition is recognizable. It means that as the transition moves toward completion it will become apparent. So the meaning of my use of segue does not mean that the impetus to abuse google for purposes of identifying political dissidents is not already there and even happening, but rather that if the first, most recognizable abuse of power is not stopped, then the second impetus will transition to 'lawful' completion, leading to identification of dissidents via key words.
Ah, thanks. It was worth getting up today, as I’ve learned something.
And the Sun ain’t even up...
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