If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google

https://lemmy.world/post/13520779

If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google - Lemmy.World

Ok, so the headline is a bit clickbait-y. It’s not not everyone who ever watched the video that they are interested in, it’s one person they are trying to track down. Still concerning from a privacy standpoint, but it’s not like they are trying to say that watching the video was itself a crime.

Thats not the issue.

Its the same as when feds ask google for location data for everyone near a crime at a given timestamp. Its violating innocent peoples privacy in large swathes.

Google stopped giving location data recently. Hope they keep going.

stopped giving location data recently

Probably so they can start selling it instead