We’re the Only Ones Fishing Enough

Like geofence warrants, keyword warrants cast a dragnet that require a provider to search its entire reserve of user data—in this case, queries by one billion Google users. Police generally have no identified suspects; instead, the sole basis for the warrant is the officer’s hunch that the suspect might have searched for something in some way related to the crime. [More]

Ah, the old Inspector Clouseau theory of policing…

So what happens if you use Duck Duck Go?

[Via Michael G]

Rope-Selling Capitalist

“We get everything from an agency saying, ‘Hey, we have one gun that we need to destroy,’ to a client in Michigan—Michigan State Police—which requires thousands of guns to be destroyed a month,” Scott Reed, president of GunBusters, said. [More]

There’s a word for such public/private partnerships, Scott.

[Via bondmen]

Linked In, All Right…

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What I can’t figure out is how hiding that she was the executive mouthpiece for a company suppressing information on a product a jury verdict found guilty of giving cancer to a black groundskeeper and leaving up her role as Speichen Frau for a “former” Holocaust profiteer is a resume improvement…