In an attempt to chase down the perpetrators, investigators turned to Google, asking the tech giant to provide information on anyone who had searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year. After being asked to provide all relevant Google accounts and IP addresses of those who made the searches, Google responded with data in mid-2020, though the court documents do not reveal how many users had their data sent to the government. It’s a rare example of a so-called keyword warrant and, with the number of search terms included, the broadest on record. [...]
The latest case shows Google is continuing to comply with such controversial requests, despite concerns over their legality and the potential to implicate innocent people who happened to search for the relevant terms. [...] There’s more that the government can get with such requests than simple Google account identities and IP addresses. In Wisconsin, the government was hopeful Google could also provide “CookieIDs” belonging to any users who made the searches. These CookieIDs “are identifiers that are used to group together all searches conducted from a given machine, for a certain time period. Such information allows investigators to ascertain, even when the user is not logged into a Google account, whether the same individual may have conducted multiple pertinent searches,” the government wrote. Continua su https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-data-on-search-users/ Il lettore attento noterà che per poter rispondere a queste richieste, Google deve mantenere un registro di ogni ricerca effettuata da ogni utente. Ogni singola ricerca che effettuate viene associata con _almeno_ una data ed un IP al vostro profilo. E lì resterà per sempre. Così come ogni singola visita ad un sito che utilizzi Google Analytics. Ogni suono intercettato dal "assistente virtuale" sullo smartphone... Lo so che è ovvio. Ma Forbes finge di preoccuparsi del primo emendamento. Noi ci preoccupiamo del GDPR. Ma il problema è a monte: Google riceve quei dati. Giacomo _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list [email protected] https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa
