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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by kempbellt on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:13PM (#21998509)
"You went 61 in a 60. Here's a ticket. Also, because you broke the law once and I'm in a pedantic mood, I'm issuing a warrant to go through all of your GPS history for the past two years. Oh look, 1 year ago you went 36 in a 35. Another ticket for you. 2 years ago you jaywalked. Another ticket."

At what point do we want the legal system to no longer have the power to scrutinize an individual's history?

I don't believe that a warrant to "ruffle through someone's life" without limits is within the powers of a judge. A warrant to procure relevant evidence to a case being investigated, legally, certainly.

Issuing an order for someone's entire Google history for a year is bordering "an unreasonable search and seizure", by my understanding. Do they have legitimate reason to believe that there is an email containing evidence? Or a document in Google drive? Location data for an entire year - how is this relevant to the case?

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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by partisan on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:34PM (#21998601)
It’s not the same thing. He is suing the city of Chicago for “malicious prosecution”. As part of that lawsuit, the city must attempt to show that the prosecution was not malicious.

That’s different than stating that you would like to browse through someone’s history for the purpose of finding crimes where they may not exist.

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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by tremon on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:49AM (#22000106)
What? They're collecting evidence post facto to argue whether the previous prosecution was malicious or not?
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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by thrownblown on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:02AM (#22001217)
He's being sued by the city for the costs of the hate crime investigation.

He's counter-suing for malicious prosecution.

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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by aledalgrande on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:40AM (#21999776)
Can't wait for an AI that does that after a subpoena. Given these terabytes of personal data, find all infractions. Palantir working on it? </sarcasm>

Also imagine just how much more power law firms on the plaintiff side would have if they want to find something wrong with the defendant's profile. Which, if there is power misuse, like in current society, is bad.

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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data by ekianjo on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:40AM (#21999777)
Extrapolating completely outside of the scope of the current case being discussed is not very helpful.
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