This is one good story however it is presented with a narrative that seeds unquestionable support for warrantless surveillance.
702 is on the horizon, what will we choose? Privacy or security. There is no such thing as both. In this well painted narrative the answer is simple. Security. What about other narratives though?
They only looked at requests sent to YouTube? Doesn't YouTube use https by default?
Did they do a simple YouTube search for 'Tom and Jerry' note down the full URLs for first two pages of search results... and look for those in the ISP logs?
DNS lookups only show "www.youtube.com" but not the VideoID or full URL I presume. So ISPs must be logging all URLs being visited by all their users?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/indias-draconian-rules...
> A police officer said that they searched for Tom and Jerry cartoons on YouTube and showed three or four of them to the child, who identified one particular cartoon. The URL of this cartoon was sent to the Cyber Cell.
edit: Indeed, they even admit this is not what they used to track them down.
The argument is our course: is public safety more important than data privacy?
Nobody AFAICT is honestly running those numbers. Probably because it would require cross-agency number gathering and the end result is potentially that agencies lose some magic powers.
Sometimes it'll be a single font that gives a person away, even when so many other bits of information are essentially the same.
It works pretty much exactly like how Akinator The Mind Reading Genie works. You narrow down by various yes and no answers, and get to the right answer, or a very close subset, surprisingly quickly.
Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.
Basically, children's entertainment = animation = Tom and Jerry, more often than not. Urban 1%er parents tend to default to Peppa Pig.
Almost every toddler I have seen has an old broken phone as their own video player.
Being so black and white about sticking a video in front of a kid to make sure it sits in one place and eats is dismissive of parents who have to make these decisions in real time.
Do we know those kids don’t get play time with friends? Or down time to get bored and hence be forced to invent games in their own heads? We only see and opine on “bad” behaviour, not the what happens behind closed doors the remaining 23 hrs of the day when the kid is out of our line of sight.
Edit: Just remembered the episodes "Ticker Tape" and "Hack Attack", which are of a similar theme.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala/kerala-kidnap...
