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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9h \ parent \ on: 3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches tech
I don't think you should be prosecuted for searching mRNA research data or contributing code to bitcoin or any of those things.
But I do think if a private individual who lived in a private residential address was murdered, it's ok to get a list of people who searched for that individual and their address. That's all.
I can't fully explain all my thoughts, but I just think that the type of crime matters and the type of electronic data being searched matters too.
type of electronic data being searched matters too.
very much.
if it is the government collecting the data, they must do so lawfully. and the 4th described the limits of government
if it's private data, and Google wants to investigate that house-fire, awesome.. thanks vigilante Google.
but giving the government authority to demand google handover their private property (the information they collect in the process of providing service) is quite a different thing... amd the story here in wired is sculpted as just "gumshoe detective solves heinous murder by ignoring the pesky constitutional protection"... then the buried lede: "gumshoe detective 's warrant is being duplicated across the country"
in other words:
government doesn't need to build panopticon if it can force businesses to be the panopticon. citizens just get shotgun panopticon'd
put another way:
wouldn't it be great if you could get back all the bitcoin you ever had spent?
you can't, because the protocol protects private property. that's why it is so important to have painful discussions about consensus.
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case in point
"domestic violent extremism" is exactly the sort of thing I want the government to eliminate, and I wouldn't want any silly 18th century white man's amendment getting in the way of my safety...
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