Police digging through Google's keylogging data, looking for crimes to charge people with based on search terms

We have come full circle - I remember in the early 00's when gaggle was a useful way to find information, and they were a proponent of free licensing and had a commitment to "do no evil".

Now, they are just a giant trash dumpster of the billions of search terms people have made, for the police state to crawl through searching for crimes to create and charge people with.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10063665/Government-orders-Google-track-searching-certain-names-addresses-phone-numbers.html
6 October 2021
Accidental leak reveals US government has secretly hit Google with 'keyword warrants' to identify ANYONE searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers

This part is hilarious: "Google, however, has defended its decision to respond to the federal government's keyword warrants and claims they protect users when doing so"
Of COURSE they are protecting their users!!! How silly of me to think otherwise!!!

>"'Trawling through Google's search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,' said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union."

You think???

Some smart hacker is going to create a list of thousands of "naughty" search terms, create a bot army of millions of zombie internet connected devices, and hit google and the police state with the biggest DDOS in history.