Yes, the federal government has begun issuing warrants from compliant Google to turn over anyone typing in certain search terms. This from thegatewaypundit.com.
However, be rest assured, the government insists they can be trusted. And this is certainly believable, yes? Just like when the federal government assured Americans they would not abuse the secret FISA courts to spy on innocent Americans. You remember how that turned out!
And we all know now that crooked feds were spying on President Trump, his family, his campaign, and his presidency—using the secret courts to obtain warrants.
This is our brave new world. Get used to it. Perhaps seek-out work arounds. After all, Google isn’t the only search engine on the planet.
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.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
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.
“Trawling through Google’s 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,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
“This 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,” she added.
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’s not publicly disclosed how many users’ data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.
This is all a trust-us-we-do-good affair which the media is accepting without question because, of course, the pretender in office is a damn democrat (which I sincerely believe should be one word).
However, do not doubt that if the tables were turned 180 degrees, the media would be all over this and so would certain democrats from both the house and senate—their staffs working feverishly to dig up, and to create, any irregularity they can imagine.
Bottom line, this is simply more dirty politics as usual and We the People are the losers.
This stolen-election government is working overtime to cover themselves and they aren’t merely paranoid. We the People are, in fact, out to get them.
