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.”
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
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.
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.
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