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Couple Visited by Feds After Google Search for Backpacks and Pressure Cookers
Renegade:
I think the only thing needed is the title and the last line of the article. :P
http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/01/innocent-couple-gets-visited-by-feds-aft
Innocent Couple Visited by Feds After Google Searching for Backpacks and Pressure Cookers
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Another reason to switch to DuckDuckGo.
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wraith808:
From the article...
Addendum 1: In a Twitter discussion, tech policy reporter (and libertarian) Declan McCullagh suggests that the visit may not have been a result of the couple's Google history. Tweets McCullagh: "Tip from nosy neighbors is likely source, or IP datadump from http://buypressurecookers.com."
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Tinman57:
All the fools people that say they don't care because they're not doing anything illegal should read this....
Renegade:
Here's her blog post on the raid:
https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724
Again, the last couple lines is all anyone needs to read:
All I know is if I’m going to buy a pressure cooker in the near future, I’m not doing it online.
I’m scared. And not of the right things.
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tomos:
Update from reason.com -
it appears the details were very different:
Yes, the Catalano's Long Island home was searched, but by the Suffolk and Nassau County Police Departments, not the Feds. Yes, the police asked Catalano's husband what he knew about making a pressure cooker bomb, not because the NSA had seen his Google history, but because his ex-employer had.
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http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/02/the-nsa-wasnt-spying-on-couple-who-searc
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