Google search brings visit from feds

[Cyrano]

A wife was using google to look for a pressure cooker.

About the same time, her husband was looking for a back pack on google.

Within a couple of weeks, the feds were at their door.

Here's the link.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/01/innocent-couple-gets-visited-by-feds-aft

The bottom line is, watch what you're googling. My guess is that this is how people end up on the no-fly list without having a clue how they got there.

The concept of privacy is officially dead in America.

[dballance]

1. Kind of flies in the face of the claims that the Feds are not collecting domestic data doesn't it?

Makes the recent stories about the NSA XKeystore look pretty accurate doesn't it?

[Cyrano]

4. Sometimes I get the feeling that we're

all being monitored by satellite on an ongoing basis. But I know they don't have enough satellites to do that -- yet.

[cascadiance]

2. Watch who you send mails to as well...

I don't have a gmail account I use much if at all. Just signed up for one to send an email to a source where my own ISP got bounced from.

When I recently sent an email to a person I know that has a gmail account and that person was pretty prominently connected to a certain company, I'm now getting absolutely pummeled non-stop with google ads here on DU and elsewhere for that company for the last few weeks.

So even if you think your email provider isn't building a profile of you, those who you send mail too (if they are google and other similar companies), I believe are also using the mails you send to others as part of their building profiles of you.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. On the bright side, this is a government that really listens to you.