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Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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The only sensible solution is to name JS and CSS frameworks using the keyword list.

Federal agents raided the home of John Doe this morning, accused of searching for terms such a “PipeBombJS” and “IED components for React”. The suspect was making pour over coffee when he was apprehended.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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Some of these keyword orders seem obscene in terms of how many people they target: > ("fragmentation") AND ("bomb" OR "explosive" OR "ied" OR "explosion" OR "pipebomb" OR "pipe bomb" OR "PVC bomb")

If the image is accurate I think "motion led" would also be in scope for initial collection. There is a filtering process after the search term net that determines whether it is in scope for the warrant. Given the dubious framing of these search terms and past examples like the NSA watching every Linux Journal visitor I'm disinclined to trust such a process. RIP to work schedule of the poor intern who has to weed out all the results for suburban parents setting up Halloween decorations with glowing eyes.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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The only sensible solution is to name JS and CSS frameworks using the keyword list.

Federal agents raided the home of John Doe this morning, accused of searching for terms such a “PipeBombJS” and “IED components for React”. The suspect was making pour over coffee when he was apprehended.

Correction: the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

#8

Some of these keyword orders seem obscene in terms of how many people they target: > ("fragmentation") AND ("bomb" OR "explosive" OR "ied" OR "explosion" OR "pipebomb" OR "pipe bomb" OR "PVC bomb")

I think that's the point. It gives the government an easy in to collect more data on any and all of these users, regardless of whether it is pertinent to a specific case.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Federal agents raided the home of John Doe this morning, accused of searching for terms such a “PipeBombJS” and “IED components for React”. The suspect was making pour over coffee when he was apprehended.

Correction: the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.

Correction: the police forces that intervened reported how the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.
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