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.”
“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.”
laughs in geheime staatspolizei
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
When you watch BreadTube you’re streaming communism.You joke, but I don’t see why Google wouldn’t just hand over browsing data regarding various topics they already consider demonetizable.
More ha ha only serious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
Here’s a genius tip to the Google developers: you don’t have to turn over the data you don’t have.
Google priorities: Ad revenue >>>>>> “don’t be evil”
But their 250+ government contracts would be at risk if they didn’t collect all that data!
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.
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.
I’ve been thinking about a network of private license plate reading cameras that only keep track of known cop license plates.
That would be interesting. Just make sure that the criminals aren’t watching them in real time.
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
What’s worse is that a person could become a suspect just by turning on autoplay
Today’s a great day to use alternative frontends that proxy your IP: Invidious (when enabled in settings), Piped (proxy is always force enabled).
Libretube on Android (open source) can log in to a piped instance, Yattee on iOS (no sideload needed, it’s on the app store, open source) can log into an invidious or piped instance, make sure to enable proxy in location settings in the app if you use a piped instance on it.
Instances for both of those services get throttled regularly, but there’s lots of instances to find one that’s not throttled and you can easily migrate subs between instances by exporting subs and playlists to a file in case yours gets throttled.
