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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
Mashable ^ | 3.23.2024 | Chase DiBenedetto

Posted on 03/24/2024 1:31:53 PM PDT by libh8er

If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to "put you on some kind of list," your concern may be more than warranted.

In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of Youtube accounts and IP addresses that watched select YouTube videos, part of a larger criminal investigation by federal investigators.

The videos were sent by undercover police to a suspected cryptocurrency launderer under the username "elonmuskwhm." In conversations with the bitcoin trader, investigators sent links to public YouTube tutorials on mapping via drones and augmented reality software, Forbes details. The videos were watched more than 30,000 times, presumably by thousands of users unrelated to the case.

YouTube's parent company Google was ordered by federal investigators to quietly hand over all such viewer data for the period of Jan. 1 to Jan. 8, 2023, but Forbes couldn't confirm if Google had complied.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Technical
KEYWORDS: crypto; google; goolag; internet; marxisttyranny; policestate; privacy; spying; surveillance; videos; youtube
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To: EvilCapitalist

Best I can offer you is a visit from a SWAT team at 4:30 AM.


41 posted on 03/24/2024 5:03:06 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: libh8er

It’s time to turn Democrats in on the Red Flag laws. They can’t be trusted, they’re unstable, and they’re threatening.


42 posted on 03/24/2024 5:27:09 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mply)
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To: libh8er

The peasants do not care about such trivia...

Now, back to the NFL draft...


43 posted on 03/24/2024 5:36:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( hen we so desperately need him)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Lol!


44 posted on 03/24/2024 5:45:41 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Lol!


45 posted on 03/24/2024 5:46:32 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: libh8er

Do cooking videos make me an “insurrectionist?”


46 posted on 03/25/2024 6:24:03 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: threefinger

Neither a TOR browser nor a VPN are as ‘secure’ as most people are led to believe.

First clue is finding out who(or what ‘group’) created the Tor browser.

While a VPN hides your location from the target website, it doesn’t hide the identity of your device.


47 posted on 03/25/2024 9:22:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: MikelTackNailer
"Wild Bunch" quick retirement scenario

I call it the "Kamikaze Patriot" retirement strategy.

48 posted on 03/25/2024 10:06:10 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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