Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
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Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#2https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_d... is a better article with pictures.
The key bit is
> The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally entering a password-protected area of a website.
> "I was searching in Google and found links to board meeting minutes," he told The Register. "Board reports, none of which were marked confidential. So I have no question that it was in the public domain."
So they're name dropping Google in the title for clickbait when the core issue is that the website didn't properly protect its data.
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#3https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_d... is a better article with pictures. The key bit is > The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally entering a password-protected area of a website. > "I was searching in Google and found links to board meeting minutes," he told The Register. "Board reports, none…
No, the core issue is the London Metropolitan Police being incompetent (and slow).
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#4https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_d... is a better article with pictures. The key bit is > The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally entering a password-protected area of a website. > "I was searching in Google and found links to board meeting minutes," he told The Register. "Board reports, none…
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58165478. Thanks!
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#5Is he entitled to any compensation?
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#6If they checked, who did access the files, don't the police should have seen, there was no password protection? Very strange. And the police nedded al his devices for 4 weeks to check that ..
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#7If they checked, who did access the files, don't the police should have seen, there was no password protection? Very strange. And the police nedded al his devices for 4 weeks to check that ..
Presumably whoever called the cops turned the password protection on before doing so.
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#8https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_d... is a better article with pictures. The key bit is > The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally entering a password-protected area of a website. > "I was searching in Google and found links to board meeting minutes," he told The Register. "Board reports, none…
> So they're name dropping Google in the title for clickbait
No, Hutchinson found the documents by searching on Google for the meeting minutes. The website might have protected the place where you found the link to the meeting minutes, but the meeting minutes themselves were hosted in a directory that not only was publicly accessible if you had the URL, but also allowed Google's crawler to access it and store it.
There is a slippery slope here, either way (if he gets free or if he gets sentenced), but none the less, Google is relevant to the case.
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#9If they checked, who did access the files, don't the police should have seen, there was no password protection? Very strange. And the police nedded al his devices for 4 weeks to check that ..
Presumably whoever called the cops turned the password protection on before doing so.
But then they have lied to the police.
Re: Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
#10This is why people say that the police are an agent of the wealthy to oppress the common people. The wealthy "file a report", and the police "take the report seriously", trampling the rights and stealing precious time of people's lives (and sometimes much worse), but the common people can not do the same to their oppressors.