“Keyword warrants” demand that a search engine turn over a list of identifiers for every Internet user who performed a particular search within a time window.https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/ …
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Replying to @zittrain
I... I... search for all sorts of things. For research!1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
And the idea of thinking twice before researching something ... . Imagine a library being asked to disgorge a list of who checked out a book.
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Replying to @zittrain
All libraries in the world being asked to disgorge a list of who checked out a book...
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Replying to @zittrain
I can see it being useful in very specific cases. But also a flood of false positives, huge waste of time, and cases like the one where FBI agents were sent to investigate random people who bought a pressure cooker and a backpack.
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Replying to @zeynep
Exactly. And it’s such an easy search to perform, hard not to be tempted to do it on a very light trigger.
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The lack of particularity in these requests really bothers me.
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Isn't this also more or less exactly how XKEYSCORE selectors work?
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