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.
They never stopped. They said they would stop and then they just kept going. Google is not a trustworthy company.
“We are going to stop doing [action]” is megacorp lingo for “We are going to stop telling you that we do [action]”
Don’tbe evil.
Once upon a time, FBI tracked everyone who read certain books from the library. This was illegal and against the spirit of the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States (this was before the PATRIOT act and countless SCOTUS carve-outs since). But they did it anyways, and invented parallel constructions to how they detected the guys they wanted.
For now, because you add on a computer or on the internet makes it a new instance, it’s still legal for them to do dragnet surveillance.
But then the people are the enemy of the justice system and government institutions, which should tell you something.
