>"Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery?"
Yes it is different, what I do in the privacy of my own home is not comparable to a security camera in a public place or a security camera in a grocery store. In the latter I do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy as I am in a public space.
>"In either case, obviously innocent bystanders will be quickly eliminated from the list of possible suspects."
How do you know this? What if during such a dragnet they see something completely unrelated that they find "interesting"?
Also the granularity of GEO-IP information is notoriously unreliable, I don't believe you could limit the scope of a such a request to a particular suburb as the article mentions.
Yes it is different, what I do in the privacy of my own home is not comparable to a security camera in a public place or a security camera in a grocery store. In the latter I do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy as I am in a public space.
>"In either case, obviously innocent bystanders will be quickly eliminated from the list of possible suspects."
How do you know this? What if during such a dragnet they see something completely unrelated that they find "interesting"?
Also the granularity of GEO-IP information is notoriously unreliable, I don't believe you could limit the scope of a such a request to a particular suburb as the article mentions.