You really need to keep an eye on the Department of Injustice these days because you never know what they’re up to. The latest example comes to us from Forbes this week. It involves Google and a collection of YouTube videos that have attracted the attention of the feds. It’s not just the creators of the videos who are of interest, however. Forbes uncovered warrants showing that the FBI had demanded user data on everyone who watched particular videos. We’re talking about tens of thousands of viewers in some cases. It remains unclear how many of these cases resulted in Google turning over the user’s data, but it’s almost certainly a non-zero number. The company has yet to offer specifics about compliance, but they claim to be making changes that will make it more difficult for user data to be vacuumed up on a massive scale in that fashion.
Federal investigators have ordered Google…
