Google reportedly shared video viewer identities with US authorities

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According to court documents seen by Forbes, Google shared YouTube viewer identities with the US government on request.

This was discovered in unsealed court documents, with information shared between 1st and 8th January last year.

The tech giant reportedly handed over viewer names, addresses, and their user activity on the platform as part of an investigation into a potential money laundering operation involving someone known as elonmuskwhm. As for the videos in question, they are believed to have been watched more than 30 000 times and were not private, which as“There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators,” Forbes says the authorities told Google.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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