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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

programming-communism When you watch BreadTube you’re streaming communism.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but I don't see why Google wouldn't just hand over browsing data regarding various topics they already consider demonetizable.