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Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names….

Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:36 pm
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:36 pm
Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers

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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.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96456 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:37 pm to
So, if I get invited over to a person’s house and they later get killed, I get swept up in a warrant if I had to google directions?
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
68266 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:38 pm to
Think of the millions who typed in "Gabby Pertito" this year.
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
20026 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:38 pm to
Well, I was actually curious what “Eli Goldfinger” referred to, but I’ll be damned if I’m searching for that now.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50796 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:39 pm to
Duck Duck Go
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
111622 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms


“Everything your government tells you is a lie.”
Posted by JayDeerTay84
Texas
Member since May 2013
9847 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:49 pm to
“Hey Alexa, google frick Joe Biden”
Posted by chef tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2009
694 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:59 pm to
I hope no pornstar names are on the list.
Posted by FlexDawg
Member since Jan 2018
12812 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:06 pm to
Solution:

Brave browser + VPN + Brave search engine
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31546 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:07 pm to
Timely info. I have been noticing the past couple of days on my YouTube homepage a "#shorts" "beta" panel of suggested videos. The ones that comprise the width of the phone screen are all very suggestive if not borderline obscene tiktoks of young girls (as in teens).

I've never clicked on one. I use YouTube exclusively for kids shows, uploading my own videos of fam/nature, Scott Adams podcast, and streaming church services.

This seems like some sort of trap for the conservative Christian set.

Eta: wow, i just checked youtube, and the lurid teens have been replaced with apostate celebrity "ministers." i shite you not. It's Osteen, Furtick and some other BS.
This post was edited on 10/5/21 at 3:26 pm
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
14324 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:10 pm to
“Google her name!”
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23836 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:16 pm to
quote:

Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names…

Must not be very secret if it's being discussed on public online forums.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
60694 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:17 pm to
Of course they did...
Posted by Daequalizer
Member since Aug 2021
1310 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:21 pm to
yet another reason to not use google
Posted by blackinthesaddle
Alabama
Member since Jan 2013
1732 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:34 pm to
quote:

provide them information on anyone who searched a victim's name or their address


I have personally found that searching the etymology of names and looking up "victims" in the weirder news articles will often reveal that the story is completely fabricated.

It is also a known tactic of intelligence agencies and criminal organizations worldwide to utilize news articles to convey messages to operatives.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
41215 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:51 pm to
DuckDuckGo
Posted by LSUbest
Coastal Plain
Member since Aug 2007
11292 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 3:18 pm to
quote:

Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about

Thought police
quote:

raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.

The democrat agenda
quote:

“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.

quote:

it's not publicly disclosed how many users' data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.
Posted by themunch
Earth. maybe
Member since Jan 2007
64754 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 3:27 pm to
Big Brother and His Holding Company staring Uncle Joe
Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
40196 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 3:40 pm to
quote:

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.


So remember folks. If you are going to stalk your ex online either use your friend’s computer or a vpn.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78986 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 3:50 pm to
Look, you guys are ridiculous. This would never be used against innocent people, just people who disagree with the administration according to any random federal agent or bureaucrat. And even if they do track you you wouldn't face charges unless you were some kind of radical-like a white small businessman. a Republican, someone who voted for Trump or made a statement in his defense, someone who did something illegal like disobey a Democrat. You guys need to chill.

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