Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ...
by IanCal on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:40PM
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I cannot honestly see how you say that
Giving a list of a small number of people who bought a hat, limited by location and time
and
Giving full video footage of everyones wardrobes (!!)
Are equally unacceptable. Unacceptable, sure, that's a difference of opinion but full video footage of everyones wardrobes is not the same as a small list of names.
Perhaps a similar thing would be if there was a well-executed break-in somewhere, would it be reasonable to ask for a list of people who took out the plans to that building from the local planning office recently?
> When you're asking for "a list of all people who X" it's a fishing expedition not a targeted investigation of a few suspects.
By this logic, any CCTV footage should also be thrown out because it's "a list of all people who were in location X at time Y".
Giving a list of a small number of people who bought a hat, limited by location and time
and
Giving full video footage of everyones wardrobes (!!)
Are equally unacceptable. Unacceptable, sure, that's a difference of opinion but full video footage of everyones wardrobes is not the same as a small list of names.
Perhaps a similar thing would be if there was a well-executed break-in somewhere, would it be reasonable to ask for a list of people who took out the plans to that building from the local planning office recently?
> When you're asking for "a list of all people who X" it's a fishing expedition not a targeted investigation of a few suspects.
By this logic, any CCTV footage should also be thrown out because it's "a list of all people who were in location X at time Y".