Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by Steeeve on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:35PM (#13888379)

Why not get a warrant for all people who have searched for the term "railway" in 2016 because they might be terrorists?

And then just add those people to a list of people who should be watched closely at transportation centers.

And then maybe make them wear a little orange circle on their jackets so they are easier to identify.

And then maybe put them all in a concentrated containment area so the rest of us were safe from all the would-be terrorists?

Or maybe at that point filter it down to just the orange-circles who happen to be from germany.

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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by mulmen on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:38PM (#13888957)

This is exactly the kind of alarmist hyperbole that concerns me in these conversations.

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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by Steeeve on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:08PM (#13889653)

This is exactly the kind of subpoena that people have been concerned about.

Everyone who searched for "Douglas". Please. There's nothing reasonable about that.

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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by rhizome on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:09PM (#13889210)

It's a personal value judgment whether you think the camel's nose is a problem. The facts remain, however, since once the police get this list, they're going to ask for more search queries from the people on the list, because it's easier to create a defendant that way.

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