So apparently some undercover agents were having messages off of YouTube with a person who is offering to sell them Bitcoin for cash. That apparently is now a money laundering violation because they're not a legal money transmitter. Did anyone else not know that that was a crime to sell your neighbors in Bitcoin for cash?
Anyway that's beside the point so in order to identify this person the undercover agents sent this person links to a couple of videos on YouTube that were unrelated to bitcoin. One was apparently about mapping with drones and something else. And those videos had existed before and they had about 30,000 views. So the feds then went to Google and said give us the IP addresses of all the people that have viewed those videos in order to try to isolate that particular person. And people are saying it's unconstitutional because it's way too wide a search because 30,000 people who had nothing to do with anything or watching the same videos unrelated at all to the alleged crime and therefore their information was getting sweeped in unconstitutionally.
Crackinjokes 0 points 1 month ago
So apparently some undercover agents were having messages off of YouTube with a person who is offering to sell them Bitcoin for cash. That apparently is now a money laundering violation because they're not a legal money transmitter. Did anyone else not know that that was a crime to sell your neighbors in Bitcoin for cash?
Anyway that's beside the point so in order to identify this person the undercover agents sent this person links to a couple of videos on YouTube that were unrelated to bitcoin. One was apparently about mapping with drones and something else. And those videos had existed before and they had about 30,000 views. So the feds then went to Google and said give us the IP addresses of all the people that have viewed those videos in order to try to isolate that particular person. And people are saying it's unconstitutional because it's way too wide a search because 30,000 people who had nothing to do with anything or watching the same videos unrelated at all to the alleged crime and therefore their information was getting sweeped in unconstitutionally.