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http://whitenoise.gizmodo.com/yes-the-fbi-is-tracking-americans-google-searches-981986667?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow'>Source (Gizmodo) 

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand sudden influx Bing and Yahoo users...it's a mystery. 

 

In all seriousness though, this is a huge invasion of privacy. 

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But... isn't anything Microsoft does being tracked by the NSA? Like all our Skype conversations and what not? Thus Bing would be part of that too. 

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But... isn't anything Microsoft does being tracked by the NSA? Like all our Skype conversations and what not? Thus Bing would be part of that too. 

Oh ya true....then Yahoo it is!  

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I don't see the big deal if you have nothing to hide, invasion against privacy? I only ever Google things I want to find out, nothing like "How to make a Pipe Bomb" or something.

 

I would sit there one night typing in things that could flag up if this was UK too.

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Ugh, my does my workplace have to block such generic terms.....anything that has "facebook, twitter, porn, etc." in the URL is auto-blocked to start with. I can hardly read half the new items on CNET. Blehg!!

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I don't see the big deal if you have nothing to hide, invasion against privacy? I only ever Google things I want to find out, nothing like "How to make a Pipe Bomb" or something.

 

I would sit there one night typing in things that could flag up if this was UK too.

I'm just going to be "that guy" today.

The Jews had nothing to hide. :|

Godwin's law ftw.

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Ugh, my does my workplace have to block such generic terms.....anything that has "facebook, twitter, porn, etc." in the URL is auto-blocked to start with. I can hardly read half the new items on CNET. Blehg!!

Here's a copy of it for you then.

 

Michele Catalano, a writer for Forbes, Boing Boing, and other publications, received a friendly visit from the FBI at her home today, which according to her Twitter profile is in Long Island, NY.

 

Pro tip: don't do a search for pressure cookers right after your spouse does a search for backpacks if you don't want the FBI at your door.

— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013

Maybe she's only one hop away from the neighbor of the cousin of Osama bin Laden's third wife, but she doesn't seem like a terrorist.

In case we needed more proof that the U.S. government is in fact reading the contents of American's online activity, this should do it. That is, unless we refuse to believe it until the FBI makes a personal visit to each of our abodes. In which case, now we know which search terms tend to attract their interest.

Happy web surfing!

Below are some of Catalano's follow-up tweets.

 

Seriously everyone. Be careful what you're googling. Scary experience today.

— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013

 

I just want to say that the task force agents who visited my home today were nice and professional and just doing their jobs.

— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013

THANKS, OBAMA.

— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) 

July 31, 2013

 

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Is this like the thing where people were upset because the NSA or whatever was collecting all of the internet data or something, and claimed it wasn't a search until they acually looked at the data (which makes sense btw) but everybody was upset anyways? I mean, it really isn't an invasion of privacy if they collect everything and then just store it without looking at it. It's just creating a datatbase of interet interactions taking place within the country as well as on American websites just in case they need to look back at something for security purposes. Like, say you did somethnig illegal online, then reformatted your computer, they could still look up what you did and track it back to you. Is that not why they are doing this? I just think you Americans are too quick to judge your government and don't actually think critically about what they're doing.

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Here's a copy of it for you then.

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I'm just going to be "that guy" today.

The Jews had nothing to hide. :|

Godwin's law ftw.

But in this case, if you have nothing to hide then you're not going to get executed. You won't get in trouble if you just carry on as you are now.

 

I do think that the US Government will take it one step too far and everyone will kick off and actually do something about it.

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But in this case, if you have nothing to hide then you're not going to get executed. You won't get in trouble if you just carry on as you are now.

 

I do think that the US Government will take it one step too far and everyone will kick off and actually do something about it.

That's the thing, the way the system is set up, if something dubious were happening in it, we can't know or we go to prison for not obeying "gag orders" like what Verizon had.

If the system is being abused, there's no check against it. That's the problem. And I don't trust the government for a second to check against itself. :|

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand sudden influx Bing and Yahoo users...it's a mystery. 

 

In all seriousness though, this is a huge invasion of privacy. 

 

Use https://www.google.com instead?

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This could actually be used for good things like knowing with anticipation when and where a flu outbreak is going to occur (I read it in the book Big Data by some guy) but since it's the FBI I doubt that's going to happen.

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This could actually be used for good things like knowing with anticipation when and where a flu outbreak is going to occur (I read it in the book Big Data by some guy) but since it's the FBI I doubt that's going to happen.

Brilliant use of technology there.

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Is this like the thing where people were upset because the NSA or whatever was collecting all of the internet data or something, and claimed it wasn't a search until they acually looked at the data (which makes sense btw) but everybody was upset anyways? I mean, it really isn't an invasion of privacy if they collect everything and then just store it without looking at it. It's just creating a datatbase of interet interactions taking place within the country as well as on American websites just in case they need to look back at something for security purposes. Like, say you did somethnig illegal online, then reformatted your computer, they could still look up what you did and track it back to you. Is that not why they are doing this? I just think you Americans are too quick to judge your government and don't actually think critically about what they're doing.

As a US citizen I realize that a lot of the people in the country only want to government to do things if they seem like they are purely in their own interest.  Ex. People who don't have healthcare and would get it with Obamacare love it, people who don't make enough to reach high tax brackets love the rich being taxed, etc. A government obviously tries to make as many lives better as it can, but sometimes the overall prosperity of a country means making decisions that the majority doesn't understand.  Of course I am more of a libertarian and believe the government should only collect revenue in sales tax and focus on defense and infrastructure, things the private sector cannot manage due to scale and cost.

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Don't worry guys your  Google search results for "Big Booty shaking" has no value to anyone.

                                        

 

                                                 

 

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand sudden influx Bing and Yahoo users...it's a mystery. 

 

Bing and Yahoo aren't any better. They're worse. Only engines like https://duckduckgo.com are theoretically safe, so long as they're telling the truth about their privacy standards.

 

 

Use https://www.google.com instead?

That doesn't protect you from Google logging your search results and handing them over to the authorities.

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https://duckduckgo.com/

 

Everyone should be using that one by now...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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So, its illegal to have a pressure cooker and a backpack? I had better catch up on the law cause i might be cooking up a mess. Seriously though, i cant imagine what they think of me when i constantly look up minecraft Feed the Beast recipes. Searches include: What temp does a nuclear reactor melt down at, how to make a nuke, how to make uranium, how to make a hand grenade, porn. Im not sure if the last one is illegal, although i hear if you search porn and a pressure cooker you might get probed by the NSA.

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As a US citizen I realize that a lot of the people in the country only want to government to do things if they seem like they are purely in their own interest.  Ex. People who don't have healthcare and would get it with Obamacare love it, people who don't make enough to reach high tax brackets love the rich being taxed, etc. A government obviously tries to make as many lives better as it can, but sometimes the overall prosperity of a country means making decisions that the majority doesn't understand.  Of course I am more of a libertarian and believe the government should only collect revenue in sales tax and focus on defense and infrastructure, things the private sector cannot manage due to scale and cost.

That, I understand. There are similar things in Canadian law and government. And of course not everybody will agree with what their government is doing, or at least not fully agree with it. What I don't understand is why the vast majority of US Citizens seem to not understand that the government is not invading anybody's privacy. I'm almost certain that, to actually view any ofthe recorded data, police services, etc. with still need to get a warrant to allow the searching. Just as always.

 

Is it only the idiots who don't understand it that were noticing, or do most people actually seem to believe the government cares how much porn they watch? I just don't know.

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Far out. Just accept that everyone is just tracking everything and there's nothing you can do about it and everyone will be happier for it. You shouldn't be searching or saying illegal things ever anyway

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