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Re:FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledg... by jeffbee on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:51PM (#24380115)
I'm not seeing the problem. The feds got a search warrant to find searches for the term "guccifer" from before the term existed, and got a direct hit on the actual culprit. Not some kind of dragnet at all.
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Re:FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledg... by analyte123 on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:59PM (#24380170)
The affidavit does not say these were the only Google records, and the rest of the thread in the link talks about how this information was already public knowledge at the time.
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