'Reverse' searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data | TechCrunch
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Reverse searches cast a digital dragnet over a tech company's store of user data to catch the information that police are looking for.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/lRQu71VPl2s

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=nI2Y9pQIqIA

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=G2OE7l4vQqs

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Imagine the perpetrator of the criminal activity in question veiwed the videos on piped.video but sent a youtu.be link to the agents. All of the information collected by the order would have been innocent people whose 4th amendment rights were violated.

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