• tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It wasn’t specific to the fire? Like, whoever googled the address is a suspect. That’s a pretty good way to solve a crime.

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      1 year ago

      Would you still feel the same way if the DMV was set on fire and you were a suspect because you’d searched for directions to the place?

      Or if you had searched that home address because you were looking for homes in the area to compare with what you wanted?

      It shouldn’t be enough to make a Google search to assume an individual is a suspect in a crime.

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        1 year ago

        Yes exactly. This story has echos of the guy who was hounded by police (and maybe even charged and convicted?) because he took a different route while cycling and rode past a house where a crime was committed. That, too, was Google.