Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
by tzs on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:18AM
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On the plus side, that timeline will help you if you want to claim murdering the hooker wasn't premeditated. Claim you killed her because she pulled a knife or threatened you or it was an accident during agreed-upon rough sex, and you panicked and decided to hide the body, and plea bargain to something that won't get you too much jail time.
Without a record of when you purchased the roll of carpet and the shovel, you'd have a much harder time selling that story.
And thanks...now I'm getting a little paranoid wondering if that time I decided I needed an area rug at 2 AM and so went to an all-night Walmart is ever going to come back and hurt me.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
by 0x12 on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:26AM
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That's not how it works. If that was how it worked you could go and buy a roll of carpet and a shovel just to help your case. It doesn't prove that you pre-meditated the murder but it also doesn't prove that you didn't. Premeditation goes for everything, also for ways to get you off the hook.
Silliness aside its the mistakes which are more scary than big brother actually watching, because theres just to many people to watch... but its real easy to make a mistake.
My favourite take on this scenario is the movie Brazil, the long and short of it is a guy gets pinned for a crime he didn't commit thanks to a bureaucracy error. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/