Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
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#2Police try to consult Google as an oracle in this manner because Google is a search monopoly. Otherwise there would be an insufficient connection to events under investigation.
Re: Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
#3Keyword warrants tend to be bad because of how broad they are. In my opinion, this was different. They used a small window of time and only used "keywords" that were the personal information of the victims. That's very different from searching for "where to get an abortion". Now they have to figure out exactly where that line is and how to define it.
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#4it haunts and fascinates me at the same time.
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#5IMO, the real underlying issue is the fact that Google has this sort of personalized info in their possession.
Remember when the corporate line was that your personal data and search history was all anonymized? Clearly not true.
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#6IMO, the real underlying issue is the fact that Google has this sort of personalized info in their possession. Remember when the corporate line was that your personal data and search history was all anonymized? Clearly not true.
>Remember when the corporate line was that your personal data and search history was all anonymized? Clearly not true.
When was this ever claimed?
Re: Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
#7IMO, the real underlying issue is the fact that Google has this sort of personalized info in their possession. Remember when the corporate line was that your personal data and search history was all anonymized? Clearly not true.
IP addresses are not people
Re: Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
#8IMO, the real underlying issue is the fact that Google has this sort of personalized info in their possession. Remember when the corporate line was that your personal data and search history was all anonymized? Clearly not true.
IP addresses are not people
They are when correlated with a timestamp and logs from an ISP
Re: Google Search Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
#9Huh I wonder if I could setup a local police force to do keyword research now for cheap with a few overbroad warrants.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
IP addresses are not people
They are when correlated with a timestamp and logs from an ISP
That may correlate to a given host, device, or customer connection, but none of those are natural persons.
Who had control of said device on that connection? Was a child using it? Remote-execution malware or a botnet? Was a criminal hacking their home WiFi?
You absolutely cannot map an IP address to a person, without additional forensic evidence that usually entails some non-technical circumstances as well.