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		nwallin on Jan 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of ac... What's the difference between this and a normal warrant, where they take every scrap of paper and electronic equipment in your house? If your objection is that it's weird Google has kept that data, sure. I get it, I use DuckDuckGo, Firefox, and I host my own email server on a VPN. I'm struggling to understand why this particular aspect is weird though. It seems totally normal that the government would seek this information as part of a criminal probe.

lonelappde on Jan 9, 2020 [–]

The difference is that this absurd amount of data exists, with no useful distretention policy.

Remember that the govt seizes this info about you to prosecute you, but you don't get this info about them for all their suspected crimes.

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