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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by Balgair on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:03AM (#21782731)
One issue is that if the police find evidence of a crime during the investigation of another crime, then they are bound to pursue the newly found crime too [0]. Under such dragnets, which you can nearly 'grep' for crime, many more totally innocent people can be found to be felons without their knowledge. 2011's Three Felonies a Day by Silvergate and Dershowitz [1,2] is a good launching point into issues with the US federal justice system. If you'd like to learn more, Ken White's twitter is a great place to start the learning process into law's foibles [3].

[0] Under many complex and often conflicting legal codes, this is admittedly a dubious statement. Add in budget issues and whoo-boy, might as well throw dice. But, in general, this is mostly true. Also, I am not a lawyer, consult your own lawyer.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00505UZ4G/ref=nosim...

[2] https://www.popehat.com/2018/12/18/alan-dershowitz-is-lying-... The book is HOTLY contested and Dershowitz may or may not be an insane person

[3] https://twitter.com/popehat

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by c3534l on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:40PM (#21785805)
I agree with the points you're making, but I should mention that now that I clicked on your Amazon link, Amazon is recommending me nothing but Sovereign Citizen nonsense and anti-Semitic ramblings. Like, Amazon's recommendation system decided it was suddenly going to form a completely different opinion of the sorts of books I'm interested in.
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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by Balgair on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:23PM (#21787594)
Holy cow! That's strange. Derchowitz is a Harvard Prof. and though he may lean right, he's not that crazy of a person. Try clearing your cookies?
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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by c3534l on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:38PM (#21787646)
Guilt by association, I suppose.
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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by stemcc on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:06PM (#21792635)
His behavior since Trump’s election puts your latter claim into serious doubt. I am not surprised that now he is being associated with what flows from Info Wars, etc.
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