{"id":67130,"date":"2024-04-03T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67130"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:11:01","slug":"more-details-have-come-to-light-about-feds-surveillance-of-everyone-that-watched-certain-youtube-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67130","title":{"rendered":"More Details Have Come to Light About Feds\u2019 Surveillance of Everyone That Watched Certain YouTube Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e896eb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4e896eb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e1b0362\" data-id=\"e1b0362\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4132ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d4132ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/feds-surveillance-of-everyone-that-watched-certain-youtube-videos\">More Details Have Come to Light About Feds\u2019 Surveillance of Everyone That Watched Certain YouTube Videos<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d504c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-excerpt\" data-id=\"4d504c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-excerpt.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><strong>More specifics on the wide-reaching demands.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1c1b77c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1c1b77c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-639db3f\" data-id=\"639db3f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a75c057 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"a75c057\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Recently, it came to light that US courts are issuing orders to YouTube (Google) to hand over user information \u2013 a previously unreported form of dragnet investigation. And now additional details about the practice are emerging.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes broke the story last month after seeing documents that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/google-is-ordered-to-identify-who-watched-certain-youtube-videos\">showed a court order covering all YouTube users who watched certain videos over a period of time<\/a>. Personal data required by law enforcement in these cases was very detailed.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Google users \u2013 that\u2019s information from their Google accounts (name, address, phone number and records, online payments history, IP address, etc\u2026), while everybody else visiting URLs listed in the order had their IP addresses surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>A one-year gag order made sure Google could not make any of this publicly known, and now we\u2019re hearing about it because that time period has expired.<\/p>\n<p>However, the actual documents that the original article was based on were not published at that time; now,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2024\/03\/29\/unsealed-documents-provide-more-details-on-federal-investigators-youtube-dragnet\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0say they have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/abtnatural.bsky.social\/post\/3konhf6wzn22i\">made available on the Bluesky platform.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The order covers the first 8 days of 2023, and three apparently obscure and in and of themselves harmless YouTube videos (the target of the investigation was a person suspected of illegal activity, while the video\u2019s URLs were \u201cexchanged\u201d during communication between undercover investigators and their target).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191691\" src=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-00.31.jpg.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1130px) 100vw, 1130px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-00.31.jpg.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-00.31.jpg-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-00.31.jpg-930x1024.jpg 930w, https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-00.31.jpg-768x845.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1130\" height=\"1244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Details Have Come to Light About Feds\u2019 Surveillance of Everyone That Watched Certain YouTube Videos More specifics on the wide-reaching demands. Recently, it came to light that US courts are issuing orders to YouTube (Google) to hand over user information \u2013 a previously unreported form of dragnet investigation. 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