Breaking! Biden Set To Announce New Lockdown Through 2022 Midterm Elections

<div><img class="ff-og-image-inserted" src="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/bidenlockdown2295898768585.jpg" /></div> <p><strong>Alex Jones delivers a critical Saturday report breaking down the Biden administration’s plan to impose a new wave of devastating economic lockdowns ahead of the 2022 midterms, where the Democrats will once again use COVID hysteria to perpetrate their mail-in ballot fraud formula.</strong></p> <p><strong><em>The Big Tech purge is here! Follow </em></strong><a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-big-tech-crackdown-is-accelerating-follow-infowars-on-these-growing-alternative-platforms/"><strong><em>Infowars and Alex Jones on other growing platforms</em></strong></a><strong><em> now to stay informed as the information blackout accelerates.</em></strong></p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-biden-set-to-announce-new-lockdown-through-2022-midterm-elections">https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-biden-set-to-announce-new-lockdown-through-2022-midterm-elections</a>

news Breaking! Biden Set To Announce New Lockdown Through 2022 Midterm Elections

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Liberal Journo Says ‘Someone Needs to Create Porn for Children’

<div><img class="ff-og-image-inserted" src="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/xxx.jpg" /></div> <p><strong>A liberal “journalist” advocated for “porn for children” where “no one gets choked.”</strong></p> <p>Yes, really.</p> <p>Writer Flora Gill, who boasts on her Twitter profile of writing for GQ, ST Style Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, and Evening Standard, claimed that children need “entry level porn.”</p> <p>“Someone needs to create porn for children. Hear me out,” Gill tweeted Thursday. “Young teens are already watching porn but they’re finding hardcore, aggressive videos that give a terrible view of sex. They need entry level porn! A soft core site where everyone asks for consent and no one gets choked.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" readability="3.1944444444444"> <p lang="lv" dir="ltr" xml:lang="lv">wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf <a href="https://t.co/kjlg9bQrKU">pic.twitter.com/kjlg9bQrKU</a></p> — Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1420761305758113793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <p>Gill deleted her tweet after receiving <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/30/journalist-scorned-on-twitter-for-suggesting-porn-for-children/">massive backlash</a> on Twitter.</p> <p>“Absolutely not getting swept up into another twitter cesspool so deleted tweet before it picks up steam! Obviously not an actual solution, but it is a real problem. Everyone take a deep breath,” she tweeted.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" readability="6.6111111111111"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Absolutely not getting swept up into another twitter cesspool so deleted tweet before it picks up steam! Obviously not an actual solution, but it is a real problem. Everyone take a deep breath</p> — Flora Gill (@FloraEGill) <a href="https://twitter.com/FloraEGill/status/1420746186089107463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <p>“Apropos of nothing I really think if someone quickly deletes a tweet, it shouldn’t be screenshotted and shared like… just let it die, you know? no? no one else agree?” Gill added.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" readability="7.5094339622642"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">apropos of nothing I really think if someone quickly deletes a tweet, it shouldn’t be screenshotted and shared like… just let it die, you know? no? no one else agree?</p> — Flora Gill (@FloraEGill) <a href="https://twitter.com/FloraEGill/status/1420753165008334864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <p>Gill’s disturbing remarks come after Washington Post writer Lauren Rowello penned an op-ed last month <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/wapo-writer-calls-for-children-to-watch-kink-at-pride-parades/">advocating for children to be exposed to “kink”</a> at pride parades.</p> <p>“Yes, kink belongs at Pride,” read Rowello’s headline. “And I want my kids to see it.”</p> <p>“Children who witness kink culture are reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid — no matter who they become as they mature, helping them recognize that their personal experiences aren’t bad or wrong, and that they aren’t alone in their experiences,” Rowello wrote.</p> <p>Why is the left so adamant about sexualizing our nation’s children?</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator" /> <p><em>LGBTQ+ Gamer Raul Zito has been <a href="https://www.banned.video/watch?id=61033462f935a41bd13d8809">accused of raping 10 and 14 year old children</a>, guest host of The Alex Jones Show Owen Shroyer breaks it down.</em></p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/liberal-journo-says-someone-needs-to-create-porn-for-children">https://www.infowars.com/posts/liberal-journo-says-someone-needs-to-create-porn-for-children</a>

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A liberal “journalist” advocated for “porn for children” where “no one gets choked.” Yes, really. Writer Flora Gill, who boasts on her Tw...

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Mexican President Rejects Jabs For Kids, ‘Won’t Be Held Hostage’ By Profiteering ‘Pharma Companies’

<div><img class="ff-og-image-inserted" src="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/amlo24781248715.jpg" /></div> <p><strong>While we often mock US President Biden for accidentally “saying the quiet part out loud,” it appears Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decided to intentionally turn up the <em>“saying what everyone is thinking” </em>amplifier of truth to ’11’ after refusing to COVID vaccines for children, vowing that Mexico wouldn’t bow to pressure from big pharma.</strong></p> <p>In remarks made earlier this week, the Mexican leader said his government was still waiting for the scientific community to demonstrate the benefits of vaccinating minors.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" readability="5.741935483871"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BOOM! 💥<br /> A PRESIDENT addressing the elephant in the room in the most cautious way, so as not to become a target.<br /> Viva México! 🇲🇽 <a href="https://t.co/LZGQ9LUJ05">pic.twitter.com/LZGQ9LUJ05</a></p> — Wake Up From COVID (@wakeupfromcovid) <a href="https://twitter.com/wakeupfromcovid/status/1421231171770404873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <p>Until conclusive evidence was provided, AMLO told the audience (in what has now become a viral, if not very under-reported) speech, that Mexico would refuse to purchase jabs for children; adding that pharmaceutical firms seemed to be focused more on making profits than on ensuring medical necessity as they rake in record sales from Covid-19 vaccines.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote" readability="15"> <p>“We need to be careful, because, as <strong>it is obvious pharmaceutical companies wish to make a profit… and would like to keep selling vaccines for everyone.</strong></p> <p>But we need to prioritize; we need to know if they’re needed or not.</p> <p>We need to <strong>not be subordinated to Big Pharma dictating to us</strong>… ‘we need a 3rd dose’, ‘we need a 4th dose’, ‘we need to vaccinate children’…”</p> </blockquote> <p>Speaking on the same topic, Undersecretary for Health Hugo López-Gatell claimed there was <strong>“no scientific evidence” showing the jab was “essential” for minors.</strong></p> <p>This did prompt some rather interesting social media responses, including:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" readability="4.2613636363636"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">And the next president to mysteriously die is….</p> — Dan Lewis (@deehinja) <a href="https://twitter.com/deehinja/status/1421385958285619200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" readability="4.4921875"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hope he'll be ok. It hasn't gone well for other leaders who've questioned the narrative.</p> — ogletwirl (@ogletwirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/ogletwirl/status/1421380045810118658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote> <p>Will AMLO be banned from Twitter? We wonder how long before the ‘establishment’ ramps up the narrative that AMLO is a child-killer? Seriously, what has this world come to?</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator" /> <p><em>Alex Jones breaks down the push to <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=61048afe4adc111ef8b389a2">inject children with experimental jabs</a> and shove swabs up newborns noses in an effort to target people’s children to ramp up the cult of fear.</em></p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/mexican-president-rejects-jabs-for-kids-wont-be-held-hostage-by-profiteering-pharma-companies">https://www.infowars.com/posts/mexican-president-rejects-jabs-for-kids-wont-be-held-hostage-by-profiteering-pharma-companies</a>

news Mexican President Rejects Jabs For Kids, ‘Won’t Be Held Hostage’ By Profiteering ‘Pharma Companies’

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Gibraltar, Iceland See MASSIVE Covid Spike Despite Over 90% of Population Vaccinated

<div><img class="ff-og-image-inserted" src="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/2948128475857474mhjguyf.jpg" /></div> <p><strong>Alex Jones breaks down the <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/gibraltar-iceland-see-massive-covid-spike-after-over-90-of-population-vaccinated/">bombshell report</a> that Gibraltar and Iceland have seen COVID cases skyrocket despite over 90% of their populations receiving the experimental COVID injection.</strong></p> <p><strong><em>The Big Tech purge is here! Follow </em></strong><a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-big-tech-crackdown-is-accelerating-follow-infowars-on-these-growing-alternative-platforms/"><strong><em>Infowars and Alex Jones on other growing platforms</em></strong></a><strong><em> now to stay informed as the information blackout accelerates.</em></strong></p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/gibraltar-iceland-see-massive-covid-spike-despite-over-90-of-population-vaccinated">https://www.infowars.com/posts/gibraltar-iceland-see-massive-covid-spike-despite-over-90-of-population-vaccinated</a>

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Russian Business Introduces Tattoo QR Codes To Prove Vaccination Status

<p><strong>A new project launched in Russia is introducing QR codes in the form of temporary tattoos for citizens to prove they got the COVID injection to participate in society.</strong></p> <p>This dystopian campaign, created by Delivery Club food delivery app and the <a href="https://www.everink.ru/collection/qr-codes">Everink Tattoo</a> online shop, aims to roll out a new trendy way to present vaccination proof.</p> <p>“With the help of our project, we want to draw attention to catering establishments, as well as remind about the importance and necessity of vaccination,” Delivery Club <a href="https://ria.ru/20210714/moskva-1741183180.html">told</a> state-run <em>RIA Novosti News</em>.</p> <p>“With our temporary tattoos, we want to defuse the current situation a little, and at the same time diversify and make the process of showing QR codes in city establishments more interesting.”</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRUQH8CrtYM/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13" readability="-0.19090909090909"></blockquote> <p>“We want to ease the current tension and also make it more fun to present QR codes at the cities’ establishments,” Delivery Club added.</p> <p>These tattoos cost $8 each and come in six design options, including a floral design and one that says “I believe in you.”</p> <p>Tyranny has never been so fashionable!</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" class="wp-image-97252" sizes="(max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px" src="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/qr24982498-1015x1024.jpg" srcset="https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/qr24982498-297x300.jpg 297w, https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/qr24982498-768x775.jpg 768w, https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/07/qr24982498-1015x1024.jpg 1015w" /></figure> <p>Moscow authorities imposed the <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/29/moscows-qr-code-system-for-restaurant-access-explained-a74373#:~:text=Starting%20Monday%2C%20June%2028%2C%20all%20restaurants%20and%20cafes,hours%2C%20or%20proof%20of%20recovery%20from%20the%20coronavirus.">smartphone QR code requirement on June 28</a>, barring citizens from sitting indoors at Moscow restaurants, cafes and bars without one.</p> <p>Additionally, patrons with QR code tattoos will still need to present photo ID to verify the tattoo is theirs.</p> <p>From the <em><a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/14/moscows-qr-code-passes-get-the-tattoo-treatment-a74516">Moscow Times</a></em>:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote" readability="17"> <p><em>Muscovites can order the QR code tattoo through Everink Tattoo’s website and submit a link to their own personal code. In about 10 days, the tattoo will arrive to be applied to one’s skin.</em></p> <p><em>The temporary QR code tattoos last for about two weeks after application. The experience could bring back fond memories for younger Russians who would get temporary tattoos as a prize with their chewing gum.</em></p> <p><em>Still, the <strong>QR code by itself isn’t enough to get you into a restaurant, as tattooed patrons still need to show their ID to prove that they’re not wearing someone else’s QR code</strong> or a masterful forgery.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>How long until Joe Biden requires QR code tattoos for the American people in the name of preventing the spread of COVID?</p> <p>Given he threatened more <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/countdown-to-the-next-lockdown-biden-says-in-all-probability-us-will-see-more-restrictions/">lockdowns and mask mandates</a> on Friday despite no significant increase in COVID deaths, it’s probably coming sooner than you think.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator" /> <em>Twitter: <a href="https://www.infowars.com/rss.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@WhiteIsTheFury</a></em><br /> <em>Gab: <a href="https://www.infowars.com/rss.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@WhiteIsTheFury</a></em><br /> <em>Minds: <a href="https://www.minds.com/whiteisthefury/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@WhiteIsTheFury</a></em><br /> <em>Gettr: <a href="https://www.gettr.com/user/whiteisthefury" rel="noopener noreferrer">@WhiteIsTheFury</a></em> <p><em>Owen is joined by Infowars Europe reporter Dan Lyman, who provides a perspective on the recent <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60ef79a8b8fc0361662b729d">protests in France over the mandatory vaccination</a> and vaccine passports.</em></p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/russian-business-introduces-tattoo-qr-codes-to-prove-vaccination-status">https://www.infowars.com/posts/russian-business-introduces-tattoo-qr-codes-to-prove-vaccination-status</a>

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Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime

<div><img class="ff-og-image-inserted" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/2hHZGXK5f_WLcfZ72Jj4PRGG2Ag=/0x40:1800x982/fit-in/1200x630/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22751494/police_data_board_2.jpg" /></div> <p>If you’ve ever read a privacy policy, you may have noticed a section that says something about how your data will be shared with law enforcement, which means if the police demand it and have the necessary paperwork, they’ll likely get it. But maybe, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-attitudes-and-experiences-with-privacy-policies-and-laws/">like most American adults</a>, you don’t read privacy policies very carefully if at all. In that case, you might be surprised to learn how much of your data is in the hands of third parties, how much access law enforcement has to it, how it might be used against you, or what your rights are — if any — to prevent it.</p> <p>Many of the Capitol insurrectionists might be discovering this now, as cases against them are built with evidence taken from internet services like Facebook and Google. While they left a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-riot-far-right-parler-twitter-facebook">trail</a> of <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22218963/capitol-photos-legal-charges-fbi-police-facebook-twitter">digital evidence</a> for investigators (and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955513539/how-online-sleuths-identified-rioters-at-the-capitol">internet</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/11/politics/internet-sleuths-january-6-insurrectionists/index.html">detectives</a>) to follow, not all of that data was publicly available. If you read through <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases">cases</a> of people charged with crimes relating to the events in Washington on January 6, you’ll find the FBI also obtained internal records from various social media platforms and mobile phone carriers.</p> <p>But you don’t have to be an alleged insurrectionist for law enforcement to get data about you from another company. In fact, you don’t have to be suspected of a crime at all. The police are increasingly using tactics like reverse search warrants to grab the data of many people in the hope of finding their suspect among them. You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term. And you might never know that you got caught in the dragnet.</p> <p>“Investigators are going to these providers without a suspect and asking for a broad set of information that is not targeted in order to basically identify suspects that they didn’t already have in mind,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the ACLU’s speech, privacy, and technology project, told Recode. “These more mass surveillance techniques are increasingly common.”</p> <p>Basically, if a company collects and stores your data, then the police can probably get their hands on it. And when it comes to your digital life, there’s a lot of your data held by third parties out there to obtain. Here’s how they get it.</p> <p>The good news is there are some privacy laws that govern if and how the government can get your data: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), first enacted in 1986, established these rules.</p> <p>But the law is several decades old. While it has been updated since 1986, many of its tenets don’t really reflect how we use the internet today, or how much of our data stays in the hands of the companies that provide those services to us.</p> <p>That means there are gray areas and loopholes, and for some things, the government doesn’t have to go through any legal processes at all. Law enforcement can and does <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22038383/dhs-cbp-investigation-cellphone-data-brokers-venntel">purchase location data</a> from data brokers, for instance. And while location data companies claim that their data has been de-identified, experts say it’s often possible to re-identify individuals.</p> <p>“The notion is that if it’s available for sale, then it’s okay,” said Kurt Opsahl, deputy executive director and general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “Of course, one of the problems is that a lot of these data brokers <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/8/21311533/sdks-tracking-data-location">are getting information</a> without going through the consent process that you might want.”</p> <p>And it’s not just location data. Facial recognition company Clearview AI’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/11/21131991/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-database-law-enforcement">entire business model</a> is to sell law enforcement agencies access to its facial recognition database, much of which was culled from publicly available photos Clearview scraped from the internet. Unless you live in a city or state that has outlawed facial recognition, it’s currently legal for the police to pay for your face data, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html">regardless of how flawed</a> the technology behind it may be.</p> <p>This could change if something like the <a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-paul-and-bipartisan-members-of-congress-introduce-the-fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act-">Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act</a>, which bans law enforcement from purchasing commercially available data, were to become law. But for now, the loophole is open.</p> <p>“One of the challenges with any technology law is technology evolves faster than the law,” Opsahl said. “It is always a challenge to apply these laws to a modern setting, but [ECPA] still has, all these many decades later, provided a solid privacy protection. There definitely could be improvements, but it’s still doing good work today.”</p> <p>If you’re suspected of a crime and police are looking for evidence in your digital life, then ECPA says they must have a subpoena, court order, or warrant before a company is allowed to provide the data they’re requesting. That is to say, the company can’t just hand it over voluntarily. There are a few exceptions — for instance, if there’s reason to believe there’s imminent danger or a crime is in progress. But in the case of criminal investigations, those exceptions don’t apply.</p> <p>Broadly, the legal process that investigators have to use depends on what data they’re looking for:</p> <ul> <li>Subpoena: This gives investigators what’s known as subscriber information, such as your name, address, length of service (how long you’ve had your Facebook profile, for example), log information (when you’ve made phone calls or logged into and out of your Facebook account), and credit card information.</li> <li>Court order, or “D” order: The D refers to 18 US Code § 2703(d), which says a court may order internet service providers to give law enforcement any records about the subscriber other than the content of their communications. So that could include who emailed you and when, but not the contents of the actual email.</li> <li>Search warrant: This gives law enforcement access to content itself, specifically stored content, which includes emails, photos, videos, posts, direct messages, and location information. While the ECPA says that emails stored for over 180 days can be obtained with just a subpoena, that rule dates back to before people routinely kept their emails on another company’s server (how far back does your Gmail inbox go?) or used it as a backup. At this point, several courts have ruled that a warrant is necessary for email content regardless of how old the emails are, and service providers generally demand a warrant before they’ll agree to hand them over.</li> </ul> <p>If you want to get an idea of how often the government requests data from these companies, some of them do release transparency reports that give basic details about how many requests they get, what type, and how many of those requests they fulfill. They also show how much those requests have increased over the years. Here’s <a href="https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests">Facebook’s transparency report</a>, here’s <a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=en_US">Google’s</a>, and here’s <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Flegal%2Ftransparency%2Fus.html&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Frecode%2F22565926%2Fpolice-law-enforcement-data-warrant" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588\u0026xs=1\u0026url=https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html\u0026referrer=vox.com\u0026sref=https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant\u0026xcust=___vx__p_22329967__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":50,"subtag_delim_length":3,"subtag_key":"xcust","subtag_data":{"id":"66960X1516588","xs":"1","url":"https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html","referrer":"vox.com","sref":"https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant","xcust":"___vx__p_22329967__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>Apple’s</a>. The EFF also <a href="https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017">put out a guide in 2017</a> showing how several tech companies respond to government requests.</p> <p>So, let’s say you’ve decided that you will never commit a crime so law enforcement obtaining your data will never be an issue for you. You’re wrong.</p> <p>As mentioned above, your data could be included in a purchase from a data broker. Or it may be scooped up in a digital dragnet, also known as a reverse search warrant, where police request data about a large group of people in the hope of finding their suspect within them.</p> <p>“These are novel techniques to discover things that never could have been discovered in the past, and which have the capacity to rope in innocent people,” Granick, of the ACLU, said.</p> <p>Two examples of this: where you went and what you searched for. In a <a href="https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/05/geofence-warrants-and-the-fourth-amendment/">geofence warrant</a>, law enforcement gets information about all the devices that were in a certain area at a certain time — say, where a crime occurred — then narrows them down and gets account information for the device(s) they think belong to their suspect(s). For <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/">keyword warrants</a>, police may ask a browser for all the IP addresses that searched for a certain term related to their case and then identify a possible suspect from that group.</p> <p>These situations still represent a <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/new-federal-court-rulings-find-geofence-warrants-unconstitutional-0">legal gray area</a>. While some judges have called them a Fourth Amendment violation and refused the government’s requests for warrants, others have allowed them. And we’ve seen at least one instance where reverse search warrants have led to the <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-location-data-avondale-wrongful-arrest-molina-gaeta-11426374">arrest of an innocent person</a>.</p> <p>Another troubling aspect to this is that, depending on what’s being requested and why, you may never know if police requested your data from a company or if that company gave it to them. If you’re charged with a crime and that data is used as evidence against you, then you’ll know. But if your data is obtained through purchase from a data broker or as part of a bulk request, you might not. If a company tells you that law enforcement wants your data and gives you advance notice, then you can try to fight their request yourself. But investigators can get gag orders that prevent companies from telling users anything, at which point you’re left to hope that the company fights for you.</p> <p>According to their transparency reports, Google, Apple, and Facebook do appear to fight or push back sometimes — for example, if they think a request is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/06/google-relieved-of-duty-to-search-for-relevant-evidence-in-executing-search-warrant/">overly broad or burdensome</a> — so not every request is successful. But that’s them. It’s not necessarily true of everyone.</p> <p>“Not every provider is a Google or a Facebook that has a deep-bench legal department with serious expertise in federal surveillance law,” Granick said “Some providers, we don’t know what they do. Maybe they don’t do anything. That’s a real issue.”</p> <p>The majority of government requests even to the biggest companies in the world result in the disclosure of at least some user data, and we’ve seen cases where someone’s data was given to the government and that person didn’t know for years. For instance, the Department of Justice obtained Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff’s and Eric Swalwell’s subscriber records (and that of their family members) <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/11/22530070/trump-doj-apple-data-schiff">from Apple</a> through a grand jury subpoena. This occurred in 2017 and 2018, but the Congress members only found out about it in June 2021, when the gag order expired.</p> <p>If your information is swept up in something like a reverse search warrant but you’re never identified as a suspect or charged, you may never know about it at all if the company that provided it doesn’t tell you. Opsahl, of the EFF, said that most of the major tech companies post transparency reports and it’s considered an industry best practice to do so. That doesn’t mean they all follow it, nor do they have to.</p> <p>When it comes to your data held by third parties, you don’t have much control or say over if and what they’ll disclose. You’re relying on laws written before the modern internet existed, a judge’s interpretation of them (assuming it goes before a judge, which subpoenas may not), and the companies that have your data to fight them. If you’re notified about a pending order, you might be able to fight it yourself. That’s no guarantee you’ll win.</p> <p>The best way to protect your data is to use services that don’t get it in the first place. Privacy concerns, including the ability to communicate free from government surveillance, have made encrypted messaging apps like <a href="https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/how-signal-became-most-popular-app-in-world-overnight-why-it-matters.html">Signal</a> and private browsers like <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-quest-prove-online-privacy-possible/">DuckDuckGo</a> popular in recent years. They minimize the data they collect from users, which means they don’t have much to give if investigators try to collect it. You can also ask services to delete your data from their servers or not upload it to them in the first place (assuming those are options). The FBI can’t get much from Apple’s iCloud if you haven’t uploaded anything to it.</p> <p>At that point, investigators will have to try to get the data they want from your device ... which is a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/24/21133600/police-fbi-phone-search-protests-password-rights">whole other can of legal worms</a>.</p> <br /> <br /> source <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant">https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant</a>

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