Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ...
by BoysenberryPi on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:17PM
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>The judge would give the order after ascertaining that the video was relevant to catching the criminal, and specific enough that it only included the time period when the criminal would have been likely to be captured
Isn't that literally what is happening here? The police are asking Google who looked for this very specific thing in this very specific area at this very specific time period.
There is a difference between shop owners volunteering camera information and this case. This is closer to all shop owners in town being ordered to turn over the personal information of everyone who bought a shovel, because they found a body that had been buried.