In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
If it's just that, it's not so bad, although it's the camel's nose under the tent. How long then will it remain just that?
If it's a warrant, a judge has to approve it. These warrants may be issued by federal judges overseeing the particular cases. Unfortunately for us, there are a number of leftist federal judges around the country who have made themselves known in the past 5 years or so as being willing to do anything to advance communism. Emmett Sullivan comes to mind.
I tend to believe your comment simply because anything said at all on the internet is subject to surveillance, the only exceptions are none.Let me tell you something you should already know. Ducksduckgo, dogpile, and all the other "completely private" search engines are ran by the CIA. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
With a capital T and that rhymes.........
There were birds in the trees, but I never heard them singing.With a capital T and that rhymes.........
now I’m singing the songs from that musical. Driving my husband nuts
Deutschland uber alles….
You are an old hoss if you remember that.There were birds in the trees, but I never heard them singing.
No I never heard them at all - 'till there was you!
Dobbin
Or FFBII wonder if we could set up a date and hour when 70MM Trump voters would simultaneously search Google for "FJB"???
We've given them no cause to fear a resistance from us. They divided and conquered before most even knew the game was afoot, and even now we're content to meem grumpily from the sidelines and waste our precious time and energy by chasing all sorts o' rabbits.
..All the while warning them to just wait, our innate civility and good manners are going to wear out and then, by gawd, we will show them..'.. just as soon as we deposit our last stemmie check, make a last run for our stockpiles to see us thru hunkering down, and post our last sarcastic comments and pics online.
Ok, how many of us in the 1980’s used the list of taboo NSA words, as their email signature line.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year
The so called federal investigators, have no legal right to as for anything!Federal Investigators Are Issuing Warrants for Google to Turn Over Anyone Typing in Certain Search Terms
The federal government is issuing warrants from compliant Google to turn over anyone typing in certain search terms.
But they assure the American public that they can be trusted. Just like the federal government assured Americans they would not abuse the secret FISA courts to spy on innocent Americans!
We now know that crooked feds were spying on Donald Trump, his family, his campaign and his presidency using the secret courts to obtain warrants.
This is your brave new world. Get used to it.
Yahoo reported:
The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial.
“Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
“This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added.
The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it’s not publicly disclosed how many users’ data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.
Owner has the CD - and plays it occasionally in his Man-cave.You are an old hoss if you remember that.
I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
(funny falsetto voice)Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your SIRE's fruit
And now to suit our
Great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
Writers will be in trouble. I know I've searched some pretty wild stuff for research on writing projects!
I suppose using Duck Duck Go instead of Google might circumvent this? I really don't know, will it?
Writers will be in trouble. I know I've searched some pretty wild stuff for research on writing projects!
No worries. They aren't going to break down your door at 3am because you searched for X. They're going to take all the names Google gives them, and dump them into an AI bot that will correlate to social media. They're looking for clusters of people doing suspect searches and displaying other trigger evidence, so they can be targeted for corrective methods.
Writers will be in trouble. I know I've searched some pretty wild stuff for research on writing projects!
I suppose using Duck Duck Go instead of Google might circumvent this? I really don't know, will it?
Actually, I'm convinced we go into an "author, ignore everything" file.
An author friend who took great pains to hide her identity (she's an elementary school teacher, so she set up a series of corporations with her pen name as the last one, to make it hard to find out who she is) has had two different alphabet organizations knock on her door to ask questions. The first time, it took a while to convince the agents. The second time, she had a bunch of her books organized on her dining room table, signing them for people who ordered in advance for an upcoming con, and she showed them the books and they left. Both times she was told that they had no knowledge she was an author, and that they'd make a note.
In which case... it'd be a good thing to be an actual published author.
That's cool! I mostly just do writing and editing for businesses.Oh, yeah. I have over fifty books published, so I'm pretty well documented. The stuff I wrote before I was published didn't have any of that kind of thing in it, now that I think about it. I think I was probably ten or twelve books in before I moved into a genre with that kind of research.
You were sending email in the 80s? On what, your Apple II?
You were sending email in the 80s? On what, your Apple II?
You think they’re stupid? Not when it comes to crushing resistance. Keep thinking that way and you’ll find out.Yeah, they're too stupid to be scared.
Yeah, I think they're STUPID and I am ready to "find out."You think they’re stupid? Not when it comes to crushing resistance. Keep thinking that way and you’ll find out.
Oh, yeah. I have over fifty books published, so I'm pretty well documented. The stuff I wrote before I was published didn't have any of that kind of thing in it, now that I think about it. I think I was probably ten or twelve books in before I moved into a genre with that kind of research.
You pays yer money and makes yer choices..,,.Yeah, I think they're STUPID and I am ready to "find out."
Try youbee, hebee, theybee, shebee and see what the results are as well.I read on one of my Facebook groups this morning that certain words or phrases would get you a demerit. "Your" and "You're" are deemed as "threatneing" and will get you slapped. "Karen" will do the same. I didn't have time to try them out for myself, but I might go back and see if it's true. Then insert "You is" and see what happens.