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Feds Now Adding Dragnet Searches Of YouTube Users’ Video Watching To Their Investigative Arsenal (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Bristle1744 to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The unsealed court order wasn’t just fishing for a list of vague identifiers that could be winnowed down to a list of suspects and a follow-up warrant demanding actual identifying information on these ~30,000 YouTube users. No, it appears the feds led with the big ask, demanding names, addresses, phone numbers, and user activity for every viewer of these videos between January 1-8, 2023. AND(!!) it asked Google to provide IP addresses for all viewers who were not logged into (or did not possess) Google accounts.

That's fucked

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

programming-communism When you watch BreadTube you’re streaming communism.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but I don't see why Google wouldn't just hand over browsing data regarding various topics they already consider demonetizable.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

More ha ha only serious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Reduce your exposed surfaces y'all

Daddy is making 'em lists, he is checking them twice!