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.
In 2019, federal investigators in Wisconsin were hunting men they believed had participated in the trafficking and sexual abuse of a minor. She had gone missing that year but had emerged claiming to have been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, according to a search warrant reviewed by Forbes. In an attempt to chase down the perpetrators, investigators turned to Google, asking the tech giant to provide information on anyone who had searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year. After being asked to provide all relevant Google accounts and IP addresses of those who made the searches, Google responded with data in mid-2020, though the court documents do not reveal how many users had their data sent to the government.
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WNU Editor: More evidence that our privacy is slowly being chipped away.
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The search terms
Secret sauce Big Mac
6 January peaceful
CNN traitors
Pelosi traitor great reset
And, of course
2pac's current residence
This country's government agencies will never recover from the 8 years of obamma and his appointees and others. FBI? Never will I again give them the benefit of the doubt. CIA and all these secretive entities will forever be suspect no matter what they claim.
What 750pm said
I don't know if it was Obama
I think it goes back to 9/11
Perhaps for longer these agencies have turned against their own people and country they swore to protect
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