New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online

[PeeKnuckle]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police-terrorism-pressure-cooker

 

Even though the government doesn't invade our privacy and watch what we search online, this family's internet history seems to be the reason why they had a visit from six men from a joint terrorism task force.

 

How did they know?

[Dateranoth]

Pretty obvious, but we would be crazy to think they weren't monitoring. Anything the gov can get away with they'll do.

[PeeKnuckle]

By the way, you're probably being flagged for a visit just by reading this thread. Sorry, guys.

 

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[irish66]

I better put in some clothes then p.k.

[Skylark95]

What the hell?  This is really messed up...

[Faperture]

They're always watching me watch porn. It's exciting.

[PeeKnuckle]

So it looks like this story got updated. I'm not buying it. Especially after one of the joint task force people told the woman they do this 100 times a week. Are there really that many companies calling in saying suspicious google searches happened on their workstation?

 

I think it got updated because this story was flying across social media at a million miles an hour.

[PeeKnuckle]

Original story

https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

[Avahra]

Oh geez

[MrsBadExample]

It's absolutely asinine to believe this was a local cop sting. This smacks of "idiotic government interference" all over it. 

 

I still love that people to this day go "The NSA won't watch what I'M doing, I just browse for puppies and cooking recipes!". Yeah, well, don't look up pressure cookers or post rap lyrics to your FB, you may get detained.

 

This country has become utter bullshit.

[PeeKnuckle]

Yep. They're finding out now that criminal cases are being brought against people in reverse by obtaining information via snooping. Information they would have had no way of knowing without spying.

 

SWAT storming the wrong homes because of a wireless router that wasn't secure. It'll keep happening, too, because it's easy and it pays dividends for them.