Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ...
by manarth on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:11PM
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A child-porn seller self-evidently deals in illegal material. What if they deal in other, non-child-porn material?
Cocaine? Ecstasy? Marijuana? Legal marijuana, in some jurisdictions? Fake/non-prescription Viagra? Hard-core/niche porn (e.g. watersports, which could be considered illegal in the UK [1], but is legal in a number of other countries)?
Is it justified, that everyone involved in non-child-porn (and potentially legal) purchases, is caught up in the same dragnet?
This is the inevitable result of overly-broad fishing expeditions.
Cocaine? Ecstasy? Marijuana? Legal marijuana, in some jurisdictions? Fake/non-prescription Viagra? Hard-core/niche porn (e.g. watersports, which could be considered illegal in the UK [1], but is legal in a number of other countries)?
Is it justified, that everyone involved in non-child-porn (and potentially legal) purchases, is caught up in the same dragnet?
This is the inevitable result of overly-broad fishing expeditions.
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-porn-legi...