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0xtr 1y ago

"The starting point of one of the investigations is an entity that uses the handle “elonmuskwhm” and is suspected of money laundering by selling Bitcoin for cash. As part of the investigation, agents sent the suspect links to tutorials on YouTube about mapping via drones and augmented reality software.Then they asked YouTube to send them data about the people that watched that video."

"In another case, related to a bomb threat, the authorities asked for information about the viewers of eight selected live streams. One of those live streams has over 130,000 subscribers."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/youtube-ordered-to-reveal-the-identities-of-video-viewers

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Hurvajs Rumcajs 1y ago

Cyber/cypherpunk "era" is here (to stay), act accordingly.

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Keysa - Simplest Bitcoin Edu 1y ago

I just always assume google collects everything and shares anything they want.

Protonmail, Mullvad VPN, Mullvad browser etc mitigate some data harvesting, and imo are worth using, tho ultimately I reckon we have to assume that much of our data is compromised.

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0xtr 1y ago

Yeah this is no surprise to me at all, I just think it's important to remind everyone how your data is misused by companies such as Google. It's also important to remember that these companies won't protect you from prying government entities. It's cheaper to just follow orders from the overlords.