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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
cnet.com
Investigators linked Williams to the arson, as well as witness tampering, after sending a search warrant to Google that requested information on “users who had searched the address of the residence close in time to the arson.”
This is bad precedent; the analogy that springs to mind is suspicion for a crime not just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but also not needing to bear any resemblance to a suspect.