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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

quote:

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
95954 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
68021 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
20005 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
50577 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:39 pm to
Duck Duck Go
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16842 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:40 pm to
quote:

Duck Duck Go


You’re now being tracked
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
111554 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 teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
95954 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 1:59 pm to
Alexa says “It helps to be a 12 year old girl.”
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
31513 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 imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
50577 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:10 pm to
quote:

You’re now being tracked


Not through Duck Duck Go, I'm not.

I never use Google for any searches, and only use Bing for work-related searches. Duckduckgo for personal stuff.
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
14294 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:10 pm to
“Google her name!”
Posted by Pezzo
Member since Aug 2020
1962 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:11 pm to
"Did you mean "Lets Go Brandon?"
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23744 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 McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31513 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:17 pm to
quote:

Must not be very secret if it's being discussed on public online forums.


Secrets are never revealed?
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
60224 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:17 pm to
Of course they did...
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
95954 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:19 pm to
This was left unredacted in court documents IIRC.

Hardly the only time shite like this happened. IIRC, at one point the BR mayor posted an unredacted report online that included the names and payout amounts for police confidential informants. That shite WAS secret until she screwed up.
Posted by TomBuchanan
East Egg, Long Island
Member since Jul 2019
6231 posts
Posted on 10/5/21 at 2:19 pm to
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This post was edited on 11/14/23 at 12:49 am
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