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Oh, jeez.
Here we go…!
I think we all know what kinds of words the government is interested in.
But I’m sure everyone reading this followed my privacy advice over the last 5-10 years, and therefore doesn’t have anything to worry about.
Right?
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent Web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.
In 2019, federal investigators in Wisconsin were hunting men they believed had participated in the trafficking and sexual abuse of a minor. She had gone missing that year but had emerged claiming to have been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, according to a search warrant reviewed by Forbes. In an attempt to chase down the perpetrators, investigators turned to Google, asking the tech giant to provide information on anyone who had searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year. After being asked to provide all relevant Google accounts and IP addresses of those who made the searches, Google responded with data in mid-2020, though the court documents do not reveal how many users had their data sent to the government.
It’s a rare example of a so-called keyword warrant and, with the number of search terms included, the broadest on record. (See the update below for other, potentially even broader warrants.) Before this latest case, only two keyword warrants had been made public. One revealed in 2020 asked for anyone who had searched for the address of an arson victim who was a witness in the government’s racketeering case against singer R Kelly. Another, detailed in 2017, revealed that a Minnesota judge signed off on a warrant asking Google to provide information on anyone who searched a fraud victim’s name from within the city of Edina, where the crime took place.
While Google deals with thousands of such orders every year, the keyword warrant is one of the more contentious. In many cases, the government will already have a specific Google account that they want information on and have proof it’s linked to a crime. But search term orders are effectively fishing expeditions, hoping to ensnare possible suspects whose identities the government does not know. It’s not dissimilar to so-called geofence warrants, where investigators ask Google to provide information on anyone within the location of a crime scene at a given time.
“As with all law enforcement requests, we have a rigorous process that is designed to protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” a Google spokesperson said.
The latest case shows Google is continuing to comply with such controversial requests, despite concerns over their legality and the potential to implicate innocent people who happened to search for the relevant terms. From the government’s perspective in Wisconsin, the scope of the warrant should have been limited enough to avoid the latter: the number of people searching for the specific names, address and phone number in the given time frame was likely to be low. But privacy experts are concerned about the precedent set by such warrants and the potential for any such order to be a breach of Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable searches. There are also concerns about First Amendment freedom of speech issues, given the potential to cause anxiety amongst Google users that their identities could be handed to the government because of what they searched for.
This is the beginning of the thing that we all knew was coming.
The entire apparatus of spying that we’ve all been locked into for 15 years now is going to be turned against the public, to create databases on who has been naughty and who has been nice.
This data is going to be linked to your vax pass, which is going to be linked to your CBDC UBI credit app.
Or, at least that’s the plan.
I’m now at the point where I do not believe there is really any chance that this system is actually going to be realized, in full, before it collapses, because the people running it are simply too decadent and stupid.
But hell if they’re not gonna try.
Thats why use vpn or proxy server online when visiting pornhub 😂
Google is in violation of constitutional rights but they get u to accept their disclaimers as all click agree agree nobody reads. Thats how Mark Zuckerface stands and answers shifting blame.— Avinash Ramkistan 😏🤞ॐ (@OThreeOne1) October 5, 2021
It pains me because individually these cases/requests I’m sure begin with the best intentions. Collectively though (and esp. when executed in secrect) its an inevitable slippery slope leading to violations of privacy that will stretch for decades.
— 🟣Benjamin Freeman (@cryptolightshow) October 5, 2021
