Anonymous ID: 979cf7 Oct. 6, 2021, 8:12 a.m. No.14732572   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Dont use google products if you can avoid it. But I doubt this is limited to google.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-data-on-search-users/

 

The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent Web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.

 

One case in 2020 asked for anyone who had searched for the address of an arson victim who was a witness in the government’s racketeering case against singer >>R Kelly<<. Another, detailed in 2017, revealed that a Minnesota judge signed off on a warrant asking Google to provide information on anyone who searched a fraud victim’s name.

 

While Google deals with thousands of such orders every year, the keyword warrant is one of the more contentious. In many cases, the government will already have a specific Google account that they want information on and have proof it’s linked to a crime. But search term orders are effectively fishing expeditions, hoping to ensnare possible suspects whose identities the government does not know. It’s not dissimilar to so-called geofence warrants, where investigators ask Google to provide information on anyone within the location of a crime scene at a given time.

 

But privacy experts are concerned about the precedent set by such warrants and the potential for any such order to be a breach of 4 Amendment protections from unreasonable searches. There are also concerns about 1sr Amendment freedom of speech issues, given the potential to cause anxiety amongst Google users that their identities could be handed to the government because of what they searched for.

 

(Search terms like Vax, jab, ivermectin, voter fraud….just to name a few)