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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by Ensorceled on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:11PM (#13886773)
No. A better analogy would be someone trying to rob a bank wearing a George grey hoody and the cops asking Walmart for records on who bought grey hoodies in that style.

Which they actually do.

And nobody freaks out about it.

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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by charonn0 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:49PM (#13887167)
What's the Google search equivalent of paying cash?
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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by jacquesm on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:52PM (#13887197)
DuckDuckGo. Probably.
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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by rhino369 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:01PM (#13889609)
proxy without signing into google? That isn't perfect, but neither is buying in cash. They can pull video tapes or ask the cashier.
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