Judge OKs warrant to reveal who searched a crime victim’s name on Google

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Winser <michaelw.net () gmail com>
> Date: March 17, 2017 at 9:30:40 AM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Judge OKs warrant to reveal who searched a crime victim’s name on Google
>
> [For IP, if you wish]
>
> This is part of a disturbing trend in which law enforcement knows that information exists and expects to get it no 
> matter what the collateral damage.
>
> Disclosure: I work for Google.
>
> Michael Winser
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/judge-oks-warrant-to-reveal-who-searched-a-fraud-victims-name-on-google/
>
> Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, have won a court order 
> requiring Google to determine who has used its search engine to look up the name of a local financial fraud victim.
>
> The court order demanding such a massive search is perhaps the most expansive one we've seen unconnected to the US 
> national security apparatus and, if carried out, could set an Orwellian precedent in a bid by the Edina Police 
> Department to solve a wire-fraud crime worth less than $30,000.
> [...]



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