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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Best I can offer you is a visit from a SWAT team at 4:30 AM.
It’s time to turn Democrats in on the Red Flag laws. They can’t be trusted, they’re unstable, and they’re threatening.
The peasants do not care about such trivia...
Now, back to the NFL draft...
Lol!
Lol!
Do cooking videos make me an “insurrectionist?”
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.
I call it the "Kamikaze Patriot" retirement strategy.
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