Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide
Getting a warrant for these was already trivial. [embedded post] @toad.city : Experts warn that if violating people's privacy is already deeply ingrained in the culture of policing and you make it easy, quick, and completely without recourse to get this data for criminals, suspects, people they wish to stalk, marginalized populations, etc maybe it could be bad somehow [embedded post] @asgvisalaw : Sure glad we bothered retaining the majority. [embedded post] Dakota Cammarn / @dakota.graphics : Dangerous precedent... The United States is going to hell quickly. @watermanlarry : That's crazy! A cop could abuse this access in so many ways! Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / @profciara : Well this doesn't bode well for privacy. #google #police [embedded post] Andrew Guthrie Ferguson / @profferguson : Hey, Google. Are the police reading my search queries without a warrant? therecord.media/google-searc... Mastodon: @AAKL@infosec.exchange : Unbelievably lame. Use Google at your own risk because it's unclear at this point if this is about censorship or fascism. — “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” — Court opinion: “internet users making searches have no reasonable right to privacy because 'it is common knowledge that websites …