{"id":43380,"date":"2021-10-06T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43380"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:46:46","slug":"the-long-reach-of-the-government-just-got-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43380","title":{"rendered":"The Long Reach Of The Government Just Got Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Patriot Daily<\/a> wire is reporting the following today:<\/p>\n

The federal government is issuing warrants from compliant Google to turn over anyone typing in certain search terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frankly, I use Duck Duck Go as a search engine. I am not sure if they have been hit by warrants yet.<\/p>\n

The article includes the following excerpt from a Yahoo News<\/a> article:<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new \u201ckeyword warrants\u201d and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim\u2019s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that\u00a0Forbes\u00a0<\/a>found<\/a>\u00a0shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTrawling through Google\u2019s 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,\u201d Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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,\u201d she added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s not publicly disclosed how many users\u2019 data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This may be what eventually will change the focus of the American Civil Liberties Union to protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans, which is what they should actually be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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