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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google (mashable.com)
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[–] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Exactly. Nobody should be ok with random data being given out "just in case". This should be illegal and never happen. But it is perfectly acceptable in today's subpoena world and that's a scary thing.

The agent could have done the same thing in many different ways to get an ip address. It's also concerning that agents are still using IP address as a vouch of identity in 2024.