All you need is Google. That’s how things have been going in the law enforcement world. If you don’t know who you’re looking for, just ask Google to do it for you. A variety of wa…
  • kryllic@programming.dev
    461·
    6 months ago

    The unsealed court order wasn’t just fishing for a list of vague identifiers that could be winnowed down to a list of suspects and a follow-up warrant demanding actual identifying information on these ~30,000 YouTube users. No, it appears the feds led with the big ask, demanding names, addresses, phone numbers, and user activity for every viewer of these videos between January 1-8, 2023. AND(!!) it asked Google to provide IP addresses for all viewers who were not logged into (or did not possess) Google accounts.

    That’s fucked

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    27·
    6 months ago

    Here’s a genius tip to the Google developers: you don’t have to turn over the data you don’t have.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
    191·
    6 months ago

    I’m less worried about this scenario: “We are investigating one specific person whom we have probable cause to believe committed a specific crime. Oh look, he has a Gmail account. Let’s subpoena his video searches with a valid warrant.”

    I’m extremely troubled by this scenario: “We don’t like people who search for videos on guns/surfing/cats/whatever. Let’s subpoena a list of those people and start investigating them on no other basis.”

    • xor@infosec.pub
      12·
      6 months ago

      “We don’t like people who search for videos on civil rights/racial equality/social justice/anarchism/communism/anti-capitalism/fbi overreach. Let’s subpoena a list of those people and start investigating them on no other basis.”

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    The public needs to create “where do cops live ?” and “what is each cop’s collective record on abuse and arrests ?” type databases.

    They need to be held to a higher standard that has us surveil them, too.

    Watch them; follow them; write it all down.

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been thinking about a network of private license plate reading cameras that only keep track of known cop license plates.

    • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 months ago

      THIS but expand it to people that work in federal agencies like FBI CIA NSA. there should be a decentralized database tracking all their personal info and their history

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      6 months ago

      I disagree on posting where cops live, that’s just going to give criminals a target.

      But we should absolutely have a record by individual, department, state, and country that documents all of that nonsense. Include last name and badge number so the public can be aware when interacting with them, as well as provide documentation about incidents.