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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
- onkoe 5y agoIt's terrible how unsurpsing this is. :(
- shapefrog 5y agoWhy is it terrible that a company responds to court orders? It is neither terrible nor a shock when a company headquatered in the US, operating in the US, complies with a valid signed court order from a US court.
- revicon 5y agoBecause keyword warrants evade the Fourth Amendment checks on police surveillance and are very likely unconstitutional.
- shapefrog 5y agoThen file a brief and take it to the supreme court.
- onkoe 5y agoGoogle collecting enough data to be used for this purpose is, in my opinion, not a good thing
- shapefrog 5y agoNobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to type every query that pops into your head into google search.
- techdragon 5y agoWell if the search results are as accurate as mine are, all this is likely to be doing is wasting police resources/time. Search quality fell off a cliff in the last few years. I can’t even get accurate results for technical queries with quotes and verbatim anymore. I don’t even mean obscure stuff, just stuff I eventually find browsing stack overflow after my Google searches fail completely.
- sjcoles 5y agoThe past 6 months has seen a marked decline in the quality of results for anything techincal. It's all just SEO spam and SEO results that are ripped from SO or other answer sites. Doesn't matter if you use another 'engine' as they all pull from Google. If you have a nebulous question it's pretty darn good at deducing what you want, but this exact ensmartening has caused the issues when searching technical things. Hell, even verbatim mode under tools doesn't work 100% anymore.