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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSound the privacy alarm! Police get search warrant for everyone who Googled a certain name
This is from Edina, Minnesota, a community of about 50,000 people. The idea that this could become a common practice is certainly cause for concern. You could become a suspect just by virtue of having typed a name in a search engine.
A search warrant issued to Edina police to collect information on people who used certain search terms on Google is raising concerns about constitutional violations.
Privacy law experts say that the warrant issued to find a suspect in an attempted identity and credit theft of an Edina resident is based on an unusually broad definition of probable cause that would be troubling if it became widespread.
This kind of warrant is cause for concern because its closer to these dragnet searches that the Fourth Amendment is designed to prevent, said William McGeveran, a law professor at the University of Minnesota.
Issued by Hennepin County District Judge Gary Larson in early February, the warrant looks at anyone who searched variations of the residents name on Google from Dec. 1 through Jan. 7.
Privacy law experts say that the warrant issued to find a suspect in an attempted identity and credit theft of an Edina resident is based on an unusually broad definition of probable cause that would be troubling if it became widespread.
This kind of warrant is cause for concern because its closer to these dragnet searches that the Fourth Amendment is designed to prevent, said William McGeveran, a law professor at the University of Minnesota.
Issued by Hennepin County District Judge Gary Larson in early February, the warrant looks at anyone who searched variations of the residents name on Google from Dec. 1 through Jan. 7.
http://www.startribune.com/search-warrant-issued-to-edina-police-raises-privacy-concerns-of-internet-users/416442113/
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Sound the privacy alarm! Police get search warrant for everyone who Googled a certain name (Original Post)
True Dough
Mar 2017
OP
So far, the Edina PD has named Heywood Jablome and Hugh Jass as persons of interest. NT
Girard442
Mar 2017
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Girard442
(6,070 posts)1. So far, the Edina PD has named Heywood Jablome and Hugh Jass as persons of interest. NT
True Dough
(17,304 posts)3. The authorities tracked Mr. Jablome and Mr. Jass
through their internet protocol address: I.P. Freely.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)6. I hear he's a very good friend of Donald Trump's.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)7. Sounds like you've watched Red before.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)2. NEXT: Police get search warrant for everyone who Googled "trump asshole"
True Dough
(17,304 posts)4. That search term might lead to
Enema, Minnesota instead of Edina, Minnesota.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)5. So Rick Santorum wants his revenge