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New, by me: U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of users’ data from tech companies.

'Reverse' searches cast a digital dragnet over a tech company’s store of user data to catch the information that police are looking for — like location data or search terms.

Now, the feds are already pushing this controversial practice further by demanding to know who watched certain YouTube videos.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/reverse-searches-police-tap-tech-companies-private-data/

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