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Wednesday, October 06, 2021

'Keyword' warrants

The U.S. government is using 'keyword warrants' to uncover the identity of anyone who searches Google and other search engines for certain search terms that may be related to a crime, according to a new report. 

The controversial practice, which is already drawing civil liberties concerns about sweeping government overreach, was revealed on Tuesday in 'accidentally unsealed' court documents obtained by Forbes. MORE
-WiscoDave

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If you think anything you do, write, read, or search for on the internet is private and not monitored by the government, legally or illegally, you've got another think coming.

14 comments:

  1. I wonder how far back they will dig into your search results. I think it depends on how bad they want you.

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  2. It's been happening covertly for some time, but now the Commies (Democrats) don't care about secretly harvesting info. They know they're on a roll to destroy America and the Republican politicians are their fucking silent partners. It won't be long and the gestapo will be dragging people from their homes for posting the Commie defined "Misinformation". 1984 has arrived. Anyone gonna stop them?

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    1. "the Republican politicians are their fucking silent partners."

      Silent!?! We're pretty vocally in lock-step with them on just about everything!
      - The GOP

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  3. There is no anonymity on the Internet. People are idiots.

    Juss' sayin'.

    Joe
    https://theviewfromladylake.blogspot.com/

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  4. I'm not sure how well this works but I use Firefox and only open a "new private window" with Ghostery,UBlock & Malwatbytes running in the browser and most importantly, a good VPN.

    I hate Google and also use Startpage as my search engine.

    Big brother is only going to get worse. :(

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  5. I know for a fact local law enforcement monitors social media platforms 24x7.
    The NSA/CIA can track key strokes since at least early 2000's

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  6. As I posted on another subversive website -

    So if I want to kill somebody I should get a VPN and park my car outside a Starbucks where I can use their free wifi. Preferably in a town miles from where I live, and leave my cell phone at home, and take somebody else's car. Getting away with crime is getting complicated these days.

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    1. "Getting away with crime is getting complicated these days."

      For you, maybe.
      - The Rich and Powerful

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  7. so overload the search engines with every bad word you can think of. F J B is not a bad word. One is a criminal, two is a conspiracy, three is an organization, more is a movement

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  8. Duckduckgo.com is an excellent no track search site. Free services like TOR are pretty good at covering your tracks, better protection for subversive wrong think search terms. #BoycottGoogle

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    1. TOR? TOR is government funded and controlled. Always has been. Good luck!

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  9. Badthink is now probable cause to issue warrants?

    What could possibly go wrong?

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  10. For anyone who thought they retained any sense of privacy well, maybe now you are beginning to get it. If you think your alternative search/browser/email will protect you, think again. Even IF you could secure communications 100% do you really think it would stop bad actors from making up what they cannot find?

    The bigger question here is "search warrants for keyword searches" WHAT? Since when is searching for anything a crime or probably cause? As a writer I will search for all kinds of things - it's call RESEARCH for a reason. I do not care what keyword search comes up in my history illegally accessed by bad actors - they are not only trashing my Forth Amendment rights, for starters - they still have zero probable cause for any kind of warrant. Even if they did there is a legal (as my layman's understanding suggests) precedent generally termed "fruit or the poisoned tree". Evidence gathered from illegal means is not admissible.

    Let that matters in a nation where our constitution is all but formally entirely disavowed.

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  11. It's not the government. Its Google. Look up how many times their CEO visited obummers white house. there motto was don't be evil. which means it is a democrat institution by doing the opposite.

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