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Courts Demand Info About People Who Viewed
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Posted By: Beardo, 3/25/2024 8:34:50 AM

Federal authorities have reportedly ordered Google to provide information about viewers of select YouTube videos, including their names, addresses, and phone numbers, as well as provide information about video viewers who weren't signed into YouTube while watching. The requests are raising alarms for privacy experts who say the requests are unconstitutional and are “transforming search warrants into digital dragnets” by potentially targeting individuals who are not associated with a crime based simply on what they may have watched online.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 3/25/2024 8:48:50 AM (No. 1685145)
I never have "joined Youtube" and always watch from a VPN, which isolates my location and IP address to a city and sometimes country different from the one where I reside.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Venturer 3/25/2024 9:22:06 AM (No. 1685168)
Yes number one, but isn't it a damned shame that you have to do that? What right does the government have to investigate what a person watches . Next they will just assume your reason for watching it. Wait: That is what they are doing now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Mass Minority 3/25/2024 9:22:23 AM (No. 1685169)
The real question is why is google storing this information in the first place.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 3/25/2024 9:29:56 AM (No. 1685174)
Re #3 because Google is an "intel agency" at it's heart, they make money from your information, using it, selling it to advertisers, and to the government. I always make sure to us my VPN so that my real IP address and city are not available to the folks on the web sites I look at.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Rumblehog 3/25/2024 9:30:45 AM (No. 1685176)
Do you think the FBI is interested in which Federal employees and Congressmen are watching porn on their government computers during work hours? Naw
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 3/25/2024 10:01:23 AM (No. 1685225)
The authorities want to learn if their propaganda is being watched. I can help with that. It is not.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: StrikingViking 3/25/2024 11:46:53 AM (No. 1685328)
It's "1984" in America and Big Brother is watching you. The fascists, both elected and the Deep Staters, have privatized the State's surveillance apparatus in order to do an end-around of that pesky Constitution (it does "hamstring" the State just as it was designed to do).
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mc squared 3/25/2024 11:50:04 AM (No. 1685330)
VPN or not, your ISP always knows where you went. Might try switching your assigned DNS frequently, too. Not perfect, but what else is there? Any technology that benefits society will ultimately be used against the people.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 3/25/2024 12:02:15 PM (No. 1685336)
Re #8, my VPN encrypts all traffic. The ISP knows that I connected to a VPN and then all the packets sent back and forth were encrypted. So, yes, they know I went to "XYZ VPN" but not what I did when I was there. And even if the VPN is subpoenaed, they do not keep records, and this has been to court. And the "we keep no records of that activity" is a valid answer to inquiries. I use Private Internet Access, one reasonable fee for unlimited devices, and they have routers in dozens and dozens of countries, and dozens in the USA. And keep to records, while encrypting all your traffic, both ways. All the ISP sees is an encrypted packet to your machine's address, not where it came from other than "PIA VPN", which literally means nothing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 3/25/2024 12:40:01 PM (No. 1685373)
This is all kinds of illegal and wrong. What if you are a writer doing research on bomb-making, automatic rifles, effective poisons, serial killers, medieval weapons, assassination, etc, all of which I have done, and the Thought Police find out that you watched a video or read a particular article? Off to jail you go.
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