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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by jlarocco on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:05PM (#13888030)
But the OP explains why that's already a lost cause.

Google's entire business revolves around looking at people's searches, email, web browsing history, etc. and providing that information to advertisers. It's not private at all.

Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by seanp2k2 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:15PM (#13888147)
Facebook records everything you type, even if you never post it or send it as a message. People largely don't know [enough to|or] care. People care a lot when a sex toy app tracks app usage, even though every app does this.

The issue I see with this specific case is the dragnet nature of it -- they're tracking everything all the time, and now they're giving that info to anyone who asks. If you thought that the consequences of falsely condemning someone to the death penalty were dire, I see this as that but against everyone in the country.