Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
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Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
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#2It's shameful how many publications ran with this story on face value.
Re: Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
#3"The government needs legal process—such as a subpoena, court order or search warrant—to force Google to disclose user information."
Well, as long as we know that the NSA has installed hardware at their "partner" companies, the main questions about the degree of access to private user data seem answered to me.
Re: Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
#4It's shameful how many publications ran with this story on face value.
Yes, but this fact needs a lot less attention than the state we're currently in, given the ignorance and resulting apathy of the general public.
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#5Is interesting that the FBI have said there was a police visit from specific departments, although those police departments themselves are dancing round the issue.
I wonder if the police misrepresented themselves.
“They were officers from the Nassau County Police Department who identified themselves as such,” said Kelly Langmesser, the FBI spokeswoman. But mysteriously, neither the Nassau nor Suffolk County Police would confirm their involvement in the investigation Thursday afternoon. An officer from the Nassau County Police repeatedly refused to even give her first name; a Public Information Officer in Suffolk County said she would comment when she had more information.
Re: Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
#6"The government needs legal process—such as a subpoena, court order or search warrant—to force Google to disclose user information." Well, as long as we know that the NSA has installed hardware at their "partner" companies, the main questions about the degree of access to private user data seem answered to me.
They don't need to ask google for anything sent in plaintext, they can get that at the ISP.
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#7Maybe not and maybe yes?? What a stupid title. There is basically nothing the writer cites to absolutely negate the claim that a Google search possibly resulted in a visit from the police?
She searched for pressure cookers, and police came to her house asking her, among other things, whether they own pressure cookers and if they know how to make a bomb out of pressure cookers. Those are the facts.
Re: Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.
#8It's shameful how many publications ran with this story on face value.
Yes, but this fact needs a lot less attention than the state we're currently in, given the ignorance and resulting apathy of the general public.
Huh? they're running a story that implies that the feds or local police can monitor Google searches without evidence, they are cynically exploiting recent headlines to pull traffic. If you want the press to be taken seriously on serious matters they need to get this shit together.
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#9I don't see how this is busting her story much. The FBI confirmed that cops went to her house, just not FBI agents, but local ones. Still, if the FBI knew, then clearly it was a joint operation in some way. Then, the WP says that the reason they went could be something other than Google searches, and instead something that they posted on Facebook or a jumpy neighbor (although that's doubtful because they never actually bought any of the stuff, just search the web for it). But does it really matter? Whether the feds got the info from Google or Facebook, it still appears to be the case that this family did research online about various items, and then cops went and knocked on their doors. No actual crime, no presumption, purely based on search terms. That's still pretty ridiculous.
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#10Maybe not and maybe yes?? What a stupid title. There is basically nothing the writer cites to absolutely negate the claim that a Google search possibly resulted in a visit from the police? She searched for pressure cookers, and police came to her house asking her, among other things, whether they own pressure cookers and if they know how to make a bomb out of pressure cookers. Those are the facts.
Nor have there been reports to support her claim. As to the police visit, there are plenty of other speculative reasons for it: https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/FWAVRVaN...