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Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history
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03-21-2017 10:23 AM |
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ark30inf
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RE: Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history
Just have a dog look at it funny. Thats all you need.
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03-21-2017 11:01 AM |
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RE: Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history
1984 baby....
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03-21-2017 11:07 AM |
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MplsBison
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RE: Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history
Didn't click on the OP links. Here is an unbiased reporting, for anyone interested: http://www.startribune.com/search-warran...416442113/
Quote:Issued by Hennepin County District Judge Gary Larson in early February, the warrant pertains to anyone who searched variations of the resident’s name on Google from Dec. 1 through Jan. 7.
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In early January, two account holders with SPIRE Credit Union reported to police that $28,500 had been stolen from a line of credit associated with one of their accounts, according to court documents.
Edina investigators learned that the suspect or suspects provided the credit union with the account holder’s name, date of birth and Social Security number. In addition, the suspect faxed a forged U.S. passport with a photo of someone who looked like the account holder but wasn’t.
Investigators ran an image search of the account holder’s name on Google and found the photo used on the forged passport. Other search engines did not turn up the photo.
According to the warrant application, Lindman said he had reason to believe the suspect used Google to find a picture of the person they believed to be the account holder.
Pretty cut-and-dried case of fraud, with a narrow window in time where it is likely that only the suspects used a Google image search to come up with the fake passport photo.
Seems very reasonable to me.
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03-21-2017 11:24 AM |
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