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Government orders Google to track, provide info on what someone is searching using ‘keyword warrants’
BizPac Review ^ | 10/06/2021 | Vivek Saxena

Posted on 10/08/2021 1:28:50 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Federal investigators have reportedly been trying to solve crimes by using warrants to force Google to search its databases for anyone in the public who’s ever used its search engine to look up certain information on the victim.

For instance, to try and determine who’d kidnapped and sexually assaulted an underage girl in 2019, federal investigators in Wisconsin used a warrant to force Google to list the names of anyone who’d “searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year,” according to Forbes.

This sort of warrant is known as a “keyword warrant.” This stunning use of power was recently uncovered by Forbes through an “accidental unsealed court document.”

“The warrant only came to light because it was accidentally unsealed by the Justice Department in September,” according to Forbes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: generalwarrants
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1 posted on 10/08/2021 1:28:50 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

OK, everybody, quick!
Go search for “warrants” on google!


2 posted on 10/08/2021 1:30:14 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Goolag: Be Evil!”


3 posted on 10/08/2021 1:33:13 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

I’m pretty torn on this.
Part of me thinks this could be a useful investigative tool for detectives to solve crimes.

Another part of me has seen how corrupt things have gotten lately, and in particular, I worry that keyword warrants will be used to target people with specific stances or interests in various political and social topics.


4 posted on 10/08/2021 1:33:54 PM PDT by z3n (“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” -Charlemagne)
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To: z3n

Count on it.


5 posted on 10/08/2021 1:35:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Google,Facebook and all the others are under the thumb of the FBI, IRS and other alphabet agencies. The threat is basically continual deep investigation which their operations could not stand and/or the loss of their Chinese markets.


6 posted on 10/08/2021 1:37:13 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Kid Shelleen

so thought crimes are now going to be prosecutable?

If you show an interest in how IEDs are made you will be subjected to investigation and possible prosecution (only if you are a conservative).


7 posted on 10/08/2021 1:38:27 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: z3n

Amen


8 posted on 10/08/2021 1:38:54 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Government = Google = Gulag


9 posted on 10/08/2021 1:39:39 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Solution = DuckDuckGo.com


10 posted on 10/08/2021 1:41:37 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

They can get a warrant for them also.


11 posted on 10/08/2021 1:44:30 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I only searched Kate Upton & the Cat Daddy dance because I thought she was a cat fancier, honest.


12 posted on 10/08/2021 1:45:13 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Repeal The 17th

I gather you both misunderstood the title and did not read the paragraphs thereunder. That’s okay. I do it all the time.


13 posted on 10/08/2021 1:48:35 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

https://www.google.com/search?q=warrant+revolution+insurrection+rebellion


14 posted on 10/08/2021 1:49:27 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

https://www.google.com/search?q=Fester+Chugabrew+Chester+Fhugabrew+Chuga+Festerbrew
I hope you don’t turn up missing...


15 posted on 10/08/2021 1:52:58 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: z3n

I agree. You know it will be abused!


16 posted on 10/08/2021 1:53:26 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Roadrunner383

Sort of like a cat. It wiggles all over.


17 posted on 10/08/2021 1:56:18 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Ya know the pony express looks better every day


18 posted on 10/08/2021 1:56:21 PM PDT by EBH (Never trust the government or a politician . 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: Mears

“ They can get a warrant for them also.”
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True dat. But I’m not sure DuckDuckGo retains the the tracking metadata. Since they don’t “monetize” it, there’s really no reason for them to retain it.


19 posted on 10/08/2021 1:58:45 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Kid Shelleen

What if you’re a poor speller and a crappy typist?

Off to jail for a typographic error!

And I thought the Spelling and Grammar Police were bad?


20 posted on 10/08/2021 2:02:18 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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