Courts Demand Info About People Who Viewed Specific YouTube Videos \ stacker news ~privacy

Courts Demand Info About People Who Viewed Specific YouTube Videos www.pcmag.com/news/courts-have-ordered-google-to-share-personal-info-about-some-youtube-users

618 sats \ 6 comments \ @Wumbo 25 Mar privacy

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bubbajimm 25 Mar

Next thing you know they're gonna try and take our guns.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 25 Mar

Pretty fucked up

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 25 Mar

as well as provide information about video viewers who weren't signed into YouTube while watching

I'm glad they included this detail. Now we know that we should be using some indirect means to watch YouTube videos (if not stop watching them entirely).

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 25 Mar

The key parts (emph. mine):

According to Forbes, the investigation into elonmuskwhm is focused on that individual selling Bitcoin for cash, which is a violation of money laundering laws. The sale also constitutes an unlicensed money-transferring business. As part of the investigation, undercover agents reportedly sent links of YouTube tutorials that covered mapping via drones and augmented reality software to elonmuskwhm, and then asked Google to provide details on who had viewed the videos. The videos received more than 30,000 views.