10/5/2021- 10:48 a.m.
Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Name, Address And Telephone Number.
“The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally-unsealed court document shows.
There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.
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.
This is a virtual dragnet through the public’s interests, beliefs, opinions, values, and friendships, akin to mind reading powered by the Google time machine.”
