Sent with duckduckgo encrypted mail ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 at 1:31 PM, Rooty <arpsp...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Gym! > > Sent with duckduckgo encrypted mail > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 at 9:43 AM, jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The New Way Police Could Use Your Google Searches Against You >> https://share.newsbreak.com/1j23z8tj >> >> For millennia, we’ve been told that asking questions was the path to >> enlightenment. But in the surveillance age, it might land you in jail. >> That’s the danger of a new search tactic that police are increasingly >> turning to in their constant campaign to transform our phones and devices >> into evidence against us: keyword warrants. One Denver court may soon rule >> on whether they can continue as a policing tactic—and in the post-Roe era, >> the wrong decision could put abortion seekers in unprecedented danger >> >> Police have used web browser history and search engine data in their >> investigations for about as long as the data has existed, but keyword >> warrants are different—a digital dragnet to find every user who searches for >> a specific person, place or thing. We don’t know how often they are used, >> but we the number of publicly known examples is only growing. And soon a >> Denver judge will provide one of the first decisions on their >> constitutionality. >> >> As far back as 2009, police would ask Google for a user’s search history for >> use in investigations, viewing a single account at a time. Where there was >> probable cause that someone had committed an offense, officers could compel >> Google to provide a list of every search a user had entered. And when >> individuals weren’t logged into Google, they could still search by their >> individual IP address, the unique identifier every internet-connected >> computer uses to communicate with servers at companies like Google.
