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I'm not too outraged over this one. They're asking who in a specific city googled a specific name during a specific timeframe. This is how you find out who your

I'm not too outraged over this one. They're asking who in a specific city googled a specific name during a specific timeframe. This is how you find out who your suspects are. I understand it's a razor thin line between "normal police work" and "dragnet surveillance" but this time I think it's the former.

bigbugbag 10y ago
> They're asking who in a specific city googled a specific name during a specific timeframe. Nope. the clickbait article that got posted here tries to spin it that way, but the warrant is for anyone/anywhere. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/judge-oks-warrant-to-reveal-who-searched-a-fraud-victims-name-on-google/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/judge-oks-warran...