All you need is Google. That’s how things have been going in the law enforcement world. If you don’t know who you’re looking for, just ask Google to do it for you. A variety of wa…
  • kryllic@programming.dev
    461·
    3 months ago

    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

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    27·
    3 months ago

    Here’s a genius tip to the Google developers: you don’t have to turn over the data you don’t have.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
    191·
    3 months ago

    I’m less worried about this scenario: “We are investigating one specific person whom we have probable cause to believe committed a specific crime. Oh look, he has a Gmail account. Let’s subpoena his video searches with a valid warrant.”

    I’m extremely troubled by this scenario: “We don’t like people who search for videos on guns/surfing/cats/whatever. Let’s subpoena a list of those people and start investigating them on no other basis.”

    • xor@infosec.pub
      12·
      3 months ago

      “We don’t like people who search for videos on civil rights/racial equality/social justice/anarchism/communism/anti-capitalism/fbi overreach. Let’s subpoena a list of those people and start investigating them on no other basis.”